![]() ![]() 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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