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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date March 10, 2015
Pages 225
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780385354127
ISBN-10 0385354126
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.86 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $24.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
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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 exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries. Manu, the studious younger son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger’s violence and is drawn, with his wayward brother Jayan, into the sordid, alluring world of poaching. Emma is a young American working on a documentary with her college best friend, who witnesses the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and finds herself in her own moral gray area: a risky affair with the veterinarian who is the film’s subject. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and betrayal, duty and loyalty, and the vexed relationship between man and nature.

With lyricism and suspense, Tania James animates the rural landscapes where Western idealism clashes with local reality; where a farmer’s livelihood can be destroyed by a rampaging elephant; where men are driven to poaching. In James’ arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage blends the mythical and the political to tell a wholly original, utterly contemporary story about the majestic animal, both god and menace, that has mesmerized us for centuries.



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Hardcover
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (March 10, 2015)
9780385354127 | details & prices | 225 pages | 6.25 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.86 lbs | List price $24.95
About: 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.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780804173438
 
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (February 9, 2016)
9780804173438 | details & prices | 225 pages | 5.20 × 8.00 × 0.60 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.00
About: A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearThe Tusk That Did the Damage is an utterly contemporary story about an ancient and majestic elephant, and his dangerous connection to the land and the people around him.
Library
Book cover for 9781628996470
 
Large print edition from Center Point Pub (August 1, 2015)
9781628996470 | details & prices | 263 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.96 lbs | List price $35.95

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