Author: Kunal Basu Publisher: ISBN: 9788172237202 Category : Indic fiction (English) Languages : en Pages : 309
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Hiran Is Born In 1857: The Year Of Mutiny And The Year His Father Dies. Brought To Calcutta By His Widowed Mother He Turns Out To Have Few Talents, Apart From An Uncanny Ability To Read A Man'S Lies In His Palm. When Luck Gets Him A Job At The Auction House, Hiran Finds Himself Embroiled In A Mysterious Trade, And Even More Deeply Embroiled In The Affairs Of His Nefarious Superior, The Infamous Mr Jonathan Crabbe And His Opium Addicted Wife. An Unlikely Hero, Hiran Is Caught Up In Rebellion And War, Buffeted By Storms At Sea, By Love And Intrigue, Innocently Implicated In Fraud And Dark Dealings.
Author: Kunal Basu Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 0297863681 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 270
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An epic first novel chronicling the fortunes of the opium trade by a talented Indian writer Kunal Basu's panoramic first novel follows the vagaries of Hiran's life, and the flow of the opium trade, from Calcutta to Canton. Disguised as a missionary, he survives cholera, piracy and war in China, arriving back in India to find his homeland on the verge of another rebellion. And he finds himself suddenly father to a half-caste son, the child abandoned by the Englishman and his wife when they fled back in disgrace to Britain. As Hiran dedicates himself to the education of his new son, the cycle of regeneration continues. Douglas, now an adult, neither black nor white, flees India himself for the Orient, again carried along on the flood of opium, this time to Borneo, to Sarawak: the land of the White Rajahs.
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