{"id":3702,"date":"2003-09-26T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T15:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:49:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:49:23","slug":"the-opium-clerk-by-kunal-basu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-opium-clerk-by-kunal-basu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opium Clerk by Kunal Basu [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Opium-Clerk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31832\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Opium-Clerk.jpg\" alt=\"Opium Clerk\" width=\"314\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>Born Hiranyagabha Chakraborti in 1857 during the time of the Indian Mutiny (when Indians rebelled against the ruling British) on the same day of his father\u2019s death, Hiran (as he comes to be called) discovers he has the uncanny ability to read palms. Not quite 20, he begins work at an auction house, quickly becoming involved in the affairs of an evil boss and his opium-addicted wife, which takes him on a dangerous journey from Calcutta to faraway Canton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult <strong>P<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ublished<\/strong>: 2003 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/06\/opium-clerk.jpg\" alt=\"Opium Clerk\" title=\"Opium Clerk\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3207\" \/>Born Hiranyagabha Chakraborti in 1857 during the time of the Indian Mutiny (when Indians rebelled against the ruling British) on the same day of his father\u2019s death, Hiran (as he comes to be called) discovers he has the uncanny ability to read palms. Not quite 20, he begins work at an auction house, quickly becoming involved in the affairs of an evil boss and his opium-addicted wife, which takes him on a dangerous journey from Calcutta to faraway Canton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,6,52,6535,17],"tags":[3598,6608,22,341,58,24,51,25,4397,4398],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-indian","category-repost","category-south-asian","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-colonialism","tag-coming-of-age","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-kunal-basu","tag-opium-clerk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Opium Clerk by Kunal Basu [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-opium-clerk-by-kunal-basu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Opium Clerk by Kunal Basu [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Born Hiranyagabha Chakraborti in 1857 during the time of the Indian Mutiny (when Indians rebelled against the ruling British) on the same day of his father\u2019s death, Hiran (as he comes to be called) discovers he has the uncanny ability to read palms. 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