Bahram
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also known as Bahram al-Bokhara
Merchant intermediary and household headActs as the human lens through which the reader observes Khalid and Iwang; acquires books and instruments, manages Nadir politically, suffers the plague deaths of his family, and reflects spiritually on all discoveries.
In The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2002)