The Tusk That Did the Damage: A novel
From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the...
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From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger.Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exh
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385354127 (0385354126)
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Though brief, Tania James’s The Tusk that Did the Damage is powerfully affecting. I read it in two sittings because I couldn’t get enough of the characters, the story, and the profound questions the novel asks. The novel begins with the voice of Gravedigger, a notorious elephant in southern India. A...
"The world is changing. If it was not changing, it would not be the world."A story of the Indian Elephant ivory trade told through the eyes of an elephant deemed The Gravedigger, two documentary filmmakers, Teddy and Emma and brothers Jayan, an accomplished poacher and Manu, a reluctant poacher. T...
10 years ago
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