About The Tusk That Did the Damage
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf (March 10, 2015)
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.
“The Tusk That Did the Damage is one of the most unusual and affecting books I’ve read in a long time. Narrated by a poacher, a filmmaker, and, most brilliantly, an elephant, this is a compulsively readable, devastating novel.” —Jonathan Safran Foer
“The Tusk That Did the Damage is a novel of great moral intensity, with the pacing of a thriller. Everyone is implicated. Everyone is righteous. Tania James’ gift, her genius, is to turn this scenario into an occasion for grace.” —Julie Otsuka
“The Tusk that Did the Damage is spectacular, a pinwheeling multi-perspectival novel with a cast that includes my favorite character of recent memory, ‘the Gravedigger,’ an orphaned homicidal elephant. 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
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About Tania James
TANIA JAMES is the author of the novel Atlas of Unknowns and the short-story collection Aerogrammes. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Guernica, One Story, A Public Space, and The Kenyon Review. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Tania James’ TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:
Monday, March 9th: Books a la Mode – author guest post
Tuesday, March 10th: The Feminist Texican Reads
Wednesday, March 11th: Life is Story
Thursday, March 12th: Books on the Table
Monday, March 16th: BookNAround
Wednesday, March 18th: 100 Pages a Day
Thursday, March 19th: Conceptual Reception
Monday, March 23rd: She Treads Softly
Tuesday, March 24th: Bell, Book & Candle
Wednesday, March 25th: Julz Reads
Thursday, March 26th: Under My Apple Tree
Monday, March 30th: Read Her Like An Open Book
Wednesday, April 1st: Bibliotica
Monday, April 6th: Patricia’s Wisdom
Tuesday, April 7th: Read. Run. Breathe.
Wednesday, April 8th: Book Snob
Thursday, April 9th: Suko’s Notebook
Monday, April 13th: Read Her Like An Open Book – author guest post