The thing about thugs / Tabish Khair.
Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.Description: 244 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780547731605
- 0547731604
- 823.92 23
- PR9499.3.K427 T48 2012
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Fiction | Markdale Branch Shelves | FIC KHAIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33436003078935 |
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"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 concealing a ghostly people, 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 Victorian role reversal is a sly take on the post-colonial novel and marks the arrival of a compelling Indian novelist to North America."--Publisher.
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