The Devourers by Indra Das ISBN 93212e50-188f-47cd-bae5-fcf2e381793f, 93212E50-188F-47CD-BAE5-FCF2E381793F instant download

The Devourers by Indra Das ISBN 93212e50-188f-47cd-bae5-fcf2e381793f, 93212E50-188F-47CD-BAE5-FCF2E381793F instant download

For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Mieville, 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...