The Opium Clerk
The Opium Clerk - Paperback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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The Opium Clerk
The Opium Clerk - Paperback is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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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 fate 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.Commissioned to procure a child for Mr. Crabbe's opium addicted wife, he stumbles upon his own future. An unlikely hero, Hiran, the opium clerk, is caught up in rebellion and war, buffeted by storms at sea, by love and intrigue, innocently implicated in fraud and dark dealings.
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Amitav Ghosh, Fiction & Literature, Literary & Classics, Literary Fiction, Penguin Random House India
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