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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
August 2012
On Sale: July 24, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 0547731604
EAN: 9780547731605
Kindle: B005OCI3NK
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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.
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