The Devourers: A Novel

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The Devourers: A Novel

For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China MiÃ©ville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination.

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER â€¢Â NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

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 manâ€™s unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees, at the strangerâ€™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 womanâ€”and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alokâ€™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.

Praise for The Devourers

â€œA chilling, gorgeous saga that spans several centuries and many lands . . . The all-too-human charactersâ€”including the nonhuman onesâ€”and the dreamlike, recursive plot serve to entrance the reader. . . . Thereâ€™s no escaping The Devourers. Readers will savor every bite.â€â€”N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times Book Review

â€œThe DevourersÂ is beautiful. It is brutal. It is violent and vicious. . . . [It] also showcases Dasâ€™s incredible prowess with language and rhythm, and his ability to weave folklore and ancient legend with modern day loneliness.â€â€”Tordotcom

â€œA wholly original, primal tale of love, violence, and transformation.â€â€”Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Red Rising Trilogy

â€œAstonishing . . . a narrative that takes possession of you and pulls you along in its wake.â€â€”M. R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts

Country	USA
Author	Indra Das
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781101967522
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Del Rey
Manufacturer	Del Rey
NumberOfPages	300
PublicationDate	2016-07-12
Publisher	Del Rey
ReleaseDate	2016-07-12
Studio	Del Rey

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