Book: The Opium Clerk Hiran is born in 1857--the year of the Mutiny and the year his father dies. Brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother, he has few talents apart from an uncanny ability to read a man's lies in his palm. When luck gets him a job at an auction house, Hiran finds himself embroiled in a mysterious trade and in the affairs of his nefarious superior, Mr. Jonathan Crabbe, and his opium-addicted wife.
Details of Book: The Opium Clerk Book: The Opium Clerk
Author: Kunal Basu
ISBN: 186159190X
ISBN-13: 9781861591906
, 978-1861591906
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: May 2002
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Number of Pages: 312
Language: English