The Tusk That Did the Damage
by Tania James
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Pub Date Feb 26 2015 | Archive Date Nov 02 2022
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Guardian
Shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize
‘One of the most compelling and unusual novels I’ve read this year…. A fascinating story of hunters and observers, old mythical gods and modern politics.’ Sarah Hall, Guardian Books of the Year
When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves.
Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting.
Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal.
As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and revenge, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original and heartbreaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
‘He would come to be called the Gravedigger.
There would be other names: the Master Executioner, the Jack Fruit
Freak, Sooryamangalam Sreeganeshan. In his earliest days, his name was a
sound only his kin could make in the hollows of their throats and
somewhere in his head, fathoms deep, he kept it close.’
‘One of
the most unusual and affecting books I’ve read in a long time... a
compulsively readable, devastating novel.’ Jonathan Safran Foer
‘Spectacular,
a pinwheeling multi-perspectival novel... Tania James is one of our
best writers, and here she is at the height of her powers: brilliant,
hilarious, capable of the most astonishing cross-cultural interspecies
ventriloquies and acrobatic leaps of empathy. You will read this
ravishing novel in an afternoon and immediately want to press it on your
favorite people.’ Karen Russell
Marketing Plan
An original, powerfully moving story about an Indian elephant called the Gravedigger, and the devastation he wreaks on a family.
A rising star of Indian writing with prize-winning potential. She has already been shortlisted for several prizes and this is her breakthrough book.
An unforgettable story bringing in issues such as elephant conservation and poaching.
Beautifully written, with an unusual anti-hero in the shape of the Gravedigger. Gripping, dramatic and moving.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781473521001 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
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