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Queer FantasyQueer Science FictionHistorical Fantasy

The Devourers

A Novel

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  • 2016 first published
  • 313 pages
  • ★ 4.3 (3 ratings)
  • 4 editions
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Indra Das's The Devourers (2016) is a queer fantasy and queer science fiction novel. The story is set in Mogul Empire and India. Key subjects include college teachers and Shapeshifting.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 26 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions.

At about 313 pages, most readers finish it in 5–6 hours.

About The Devourers

"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 man's unfinished tale, Alok will do anything to hear its completion. So Alok agrees, at the stranger's 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 woman--and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds. With every passing chapter of beauty and brutality, Alok's interest in the stranger grows and evolves into something darker and more urgent."--
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Themes, setting & tropes

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Subjects

  • College teachers
  • India
  • Historical fantasy
  • Shapeshifting
  • LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy
  • Lambda Literary Awards
  • Lambda Literary Award Winner
  • Fantasy
  • Historical

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Quick answers

Who wrote The Devourers?

The Devourers was written by Indra Das and first published in 2016.

What genre is The Devourers?

It is usually shelved as Queer Fantasy, Queer Science Fiction, Historical Fantasy and Shapeshifter Fiction.

How long is The Devourers?

The median edition has 313 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Devourers?

Readers who like it often enjoy Point of Dreams, Otherbound and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

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