num_pages: 306
description: On a cool evening in Kolkata India beneath a full moon as the whirling rhythms of traveling musicians fill the night college professor Alok encounters a mysterious stranger with a bizarre confession and an extraordinary story. Tantalized by the mans unfinished tale Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees at the strangers behest to transcribe a collection of battered notebooks weathered parchments and once-living skins. From these documents spills the chronicle of a race of people at once more than human yet kin to beasts ruled by instincts and desires blood-deep and ages-old. The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant womanand destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality Aloks interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent.
language: English
title: The Devourers
publisher: Del Rey Books