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“I love this book. It was a book that, as I was getting towards the end, I wanted to read slower and slower and slower so I wouldn’t finish it. The weekly clothes market on the Singapore River, which is a scene fairly early in the novel, is a brilliant illustration of the kinds of exchanges within Asia that are so interesting to historians. He calls it the ‘Wordy-Market,’ which is a wonderful phrase. The novel is about friendship, commerce and empire as well as being about the tragic story of opium. It’s a great illustration of one of those novels which are themselves marvellous histories of economic life.” Read more...
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