We talk to Loot author Tania James about the real Tipu's Tiger, bringing eighteenth-century Mysore to life, and more.
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Sometimes—well, a lot of times—I found the historical research to be a bit tedious, but then I’d stumble across a detail that would prompt my own imagination in a direction I hadn’t anticipated beforehand.came from and the themes you wanted to make sure the book explored.was the automaton itself, Tipu’s Tiger, which is housed in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
I can’t remember where I read about Tipu’s Tiger, only that it appeared as a sort of footnote in some longer book about more famous and mechanically sophisticated automata that were popular in 17th and 18th century Europe. Paste: The narrative format of this book is fascinating to me—we switch sort of focal characters between and among Abbas, Jehane, Du Leze, Lady Selwyn, and Rum—there’s even a chronicle of the sea voyage of Thomass Beddicker in the middle that reads like a diary How did you decide which characters were going to be the focal points of the story, and why did you choose these particular figures?Well, I originally thought Loot would be a heist novel that would take place in an English country house.
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