The Tusk That Did the Damage

Memory can smell of old sepia pictures; it can also bear the rotten stench of an unhealed wound.

In the case of the Gravedigger, a monster of an elephant and the main protagonist of Tania James's latest novel The Tusk That Did The Damage, it comes with a foul odor, that of the bleeding body of his mother, shot by poachers right in front of his eyes when he was still a calf.