The Resource The devourers, Indra Das
The devourers, Indra Das
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The item The devourers, Indra Das represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- On a cool evening in Calcutta, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of travelling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalised 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Del Ray trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101967539
- Label
- The devourers
- Title
- The devourers
- Statement of responsibility
- Indra Das
- Subject
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- trueCollege teachers
- trueWerewolves -- Folklore
- trueShapeshifting
- Shapeshifting -- Fiction
- trueFantasy fiction
- trueSexuality
- trueMythological fiction
- trueShapeshifters
- Mogul Empire -- Fiction
- trueSupernatural
- trueMythology
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueStorytelling
- College teachers -- Fiction
- trueIndia
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- India -- Fiction
- trueGender identity
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On a cool evening in Calcutta, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms of travelling musicians fill the night, college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalised 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
- Summary
- In modern-day Kolkata, college professor Alok Mukherjee meets a mysterious stranger who claims to be part wolf. The stranger spins a captivating saga of magic and monsters in Mughal India, and then asks Alok to translate an ancient manuscript that turns out to be much more than a legend. Fans of Glen Duncan'sThe Last Werewolf may enjoy this lush, lyrical debut, in which shapeshifting storytellers weave elements of folklore and mythology into their violent and haunting autobiographical narratives. -- Description by Gillian Speace
- Award
- Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian/Gay Science Fiction-Fantasy-Horror, 2017.
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- 10490448
- Cataloging source
- WWBK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Das, Indra
- Dewey number
- 813
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- College teachers
- Shapeshifting
- Mogul Empire
- India
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The devourers, Indra Das
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059786574
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- Del Ray trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101967539
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957022299
- Label
- The devourers, Indra Das
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059786574
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Edition
- Del Ray trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101967539
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957022299
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueCollege teachers
- College teachers -- Fiction
- trueFantasy fiction
- trueGender identity
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueIndia
- India -- Fiction
- Mogul Empire -- Fiction
- trueMythological fiction
- trueMythology
- trueSexuality
- trueShapeshifters
- trueShapeshifting
- Shapeshifting -- Fiction
- trueStorytelling
- trueSupernatural
- trueWerewolves -- Folklore
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