![]() ![]() ![]() With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alok’s interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant woman-and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. So Alok agrees, at the stranger’s behest, to transcribe a collection of battered notebooks, weathered parchments, and once-living skins.įrom these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts, ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep and ages-old. Tantalized by the man’s unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST.For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. ![]()
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