The Thing about Thugs
  • Published:
    Jul-2012 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    19th Century Victorian (1837-1901)
  • Pages:
    256
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A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man's misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders

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 a ghostly people call home, 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 sly Victorian role reversal marks the arrival of a compelling new Indian novelist to North America.
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    • First Edition
    • Jul-2012
    • Harcourt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0547731604
    • ISBN13: 9780547731605
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    • Jul-2012
    • Harcourt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 054773168X
    • ISBN13: 9780547731681
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    • Jul-2012
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook (Kindle)



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