Orphaned by poachers and sold into a life of labour and exhibition, an elephant breaks free of his chains
and begins terrorizing the country- side, earning him his name, the Gravedigger.
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, who witnesses the porous boundary between conservation
and corruption and finds herself caught up in her own betrayal.
As the novel hurtles towards its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and betrayal, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. With lyricism and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells
an original and heartbreaking story about how we treat nature, and more importantly about how we treat each other.
All rights for the final cover lie with Penguin Books India.
Cover illustration by Anna Higgie
All the draft covers are solely mock ups, I do not own rights to any images or illustrations.
All the draft covers are solely mock ups, I do not own rights to any images or illustrations.
Illustration on draft covers 4, 5, 6 and 7 done by me.
Please do check out Anna Higgie's work at http://www.annahiggie.co.uk/
