Kunal Basu was born in Calcutta and has traveled widely. He is the author of the novels, The Yellow Emperor's Cure, The Opium Clerk, Racists, and a book of short stories, The Japanese Wife. He teaches at Oxford University and is married with one daughter.
"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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