The Thing About Thugs (ePub)
A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man's misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders
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A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man's misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders
In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London's underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally falls on the "thug." With help from fellow immigrants led by a shrewd Punjabi woman, Ali journeys deep into a hostile city in an attempt to save himself and end the gruesome murders.
Ranging from skull-lined mansions to underground tunnels a ghostly people call home, The Thing about Thugs is a feat of imagination to rival Wilkie Collins or Michael Chabon. Short-listed for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize, this sly Victorian role reversal marks the arrival of a compelling new Indian novelist to North America.
- Autor: Tabish Khair
- 2014, Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 1472112741
- ISBN-13: 9781472112743
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.02.2014
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