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Del Rey
June 2016
On Sale: June 2, 2016
320 pages
ISBN: 110196751X
EAN: 9781101967515
Kindle: B016TG5RLK
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy
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. 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.
Tantalized
by the man’s unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to
hear
its completion. So Alok agrees, at the stranger’s behest,
to
transcribe a collection of battered notebooks, weathered
parchments, and once-living skins. From 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. 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. With every passing chapter of beauty and
brutality,
Alok’s interest in the stranger grows and evolves into
something darker and more urgent. Shifting dreamlike between present and past with
intoxicating language, visceral action, compelling
characters, and stark emotion, The Devourers
offers a
reading experience quite unlike any other novel.
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