num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Opium Clerk
titlecomplete: The Opium Clerk
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, India, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 151
places: Calcutta
publisher: Phoenix