《The Thing about Thugs》【英文原版精装签名见图】

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作者Khair, Tabish

出版社Fourth Estate

出版时间2010

装帧精装

尺寸23 × 15.3 cm

页数244页

正文语种英语

上书时间2024-03-27

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商品描述: 2010年曼氏亚洲文学奖入围，这家维多利亚风格的角色互换是一个狡猾的后殖民小说，标志着一个引人注目的印度小说家北美的到来
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.