Tania James - The Tusk That Did the Damage

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From the critically acclaimed author of
and
, 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,
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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I would also like to thank:

The United States — India Educational Foundation and the Fulbright Program, especially Neeraj Goswami.

Abhijit Bhawal, veterinary surgeon with WTI’s Mobile Veterinary Service in Upper Assam, whose stories of animal rescue deserve an entire book unto themselves.

Babu O. S., a true encyclopedia of pachydermal knowledge.

Surendra Varma, one of India’s leading elephant researchers, who generously organized my own research trip to Wayanad and put me in touch with several warm, intelligent hosts — Mr. Gangadharan Mangalassery, Vinayan P. A., Aparnadevi P. A., Sujin N. S., and Sabitha C.

The Periyar Tiger Reserve, especially Sanjay Kumar Ayyappan, deputy director; Binoy C. Thomas; Manu Sathyan; and Shashi Kumar. By employing former poachers, Periyar has cultivated a small army of expert forest watchers, many of whom gave me their time and knowledge, including Malaichami, P. Deivam, Mahamaya, and C. Pandyan.

Additional thanks for the guidance of the following individuals: R. V. Lakshmi Ammu, Devna Arora, Dr. Jacob V. Cheeran, Carol Buckley, Dilip Deori, Suparna Ganguly, Laban Gogoi, Dinesh K. J. and K. M. Javanayyan Gowda, Bulu Imam, Justin Imam, Divisional Range Officer Shajana Karim, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Manju Menon, Mahesh Rangarajan, P. V. Subramanian, Subramanyam C. K., and Susheela Varasyar.

These publications were important to the writing of this book:

Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity, by Gay Bradshaw

The Elephant Graveyard, by Tarquin Hall

Deeper Roots of Historical Injustice: Trends and Challenges in the Forests of India, in particular the chapter by Ashish Kothari and Neema Pathak: “Conservation and Rights in India”

Elephant Days and Nights, by Raman Sukumar

“Elephant Poaching in Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Southern India,” by Surendra Varma

Thank you to the extraordinary Nicole Aragi, for her generosity and faith and elephant-shaped gifts; to Jordan Pavlin, for lending this book her brilliance. To Duvall Osteen. To Caroline Bleeke, Brittany Morrongiello, Ellen Feldman, Annette Szlachta-McGinn, and the wonderful team at Knopf. To Jenny Assef, Peter Hlinka, and Karen Thompson Walker, kindly readers and friends.

To the Maru family and the James family, to whom I owe a debt beyond words.

To Vivek Maru, who infused every page of this book with his insight and care.

And to Luka, who arrived with perfect timing.

A Note about the Author

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, D.C., with her husband and son.

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