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The thing about thugs / Tabish Khair.
- Title
- The thing about thugs / Tabish Khair.
- Author
- Khair, Tabish
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- 244 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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. "--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780547731605
- 0547731604
- LCCN
- ^^2012005647
- OCLC
- 744294494
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library