The Yellow Emperor's Cure - Hardcover

Praise for the work of Kunal Basu "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)
"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""

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.