About the Author:
Kunal Basu was born in Calcutta and has traveled widely. He is the author of three other novels, The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturist, and Racists, and a book of short stories, The Japanese Wife. He teaches at Oxford University and is married with one daughter. Visit kunalbasu.com.
Review:
"Imaginative . . . like strolling through an art gallery for sheer visual power."--Elle
"A rich tale of artistic and erotic obsession." --Time Out
"Richly painted literary novel . . . A deeply satisfying tale mixing history, cultural clashes, violence and love. Fortunately, it's the readers who win." --Kirkus
"A wonderful and compellingly visual novel, whose world is as completely realized as anything by Robert Graves, Amitav Ghosh or Barry Unsworth." --William Dalrymple, author of From the Holy Mountain
Basu interweaves strands of romance, medicine, and history into a fascinating cross-cultural tapestry...Conjuring up an exotic time and place, Basu provides a passport into a vanished world." -- Booklist
"Basu keeps us intrigued by his hero and by the exotic world that creates and destroys him." --Sunday Times (London)
"The Yellow Emperor’s Cure will prove to be quite the riveting and much recommended read for any historical fiction collection, highly recommended." --Midwest Book Review
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