Indra Das0.0 In a dusty caravanserai in seventeenth-century mumtazabad, cyrah, a young wanderer, meets a man who says he is a monster. Their encounter fills her with revulsion and dread, yet changes her forever. In present-day kolkata, college professor alok mukherjee meets a man who claims to be a werewolf. Alone and estranged after a divorce, alok is drawn to the stranger's hypnotic allure, unable to tell delusion from truth, trickery from magic.// beginning in mughal india by the foot of the taj mahal and ulminating in the lush, dangerous forests of the sunderbans in twenty-first century india, the devourers is a story about shape-shifters, hunters with second selves who prey on humans and live in the shadows of civilization. But it is also about what it means to be human, and the transformative powers of love. Utterly gripping and wholly original, it reinvents the literary fantasy novel for india, imbuing it with depth, emotion and richness.
Майкл Нава0.0 By the beginning of Goldenboy, Henry has become sober, finding spirituality in his recovery while becoming further engaged in gay activism. He decides to assist a Los Angeles attorney who is dying of AIDS with the defense of a young gay man on trial for killing a coworker who threatened to out him. Goldenboy probes explosive themes of homophobia and exploitation within the gay community and also introduces Josh Mandel, who will become a critical part of the series arc.
