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020			_a9789384067342
082			_a813.6 T3296 S _b109098
100			_aTharoor, Kanishk
245			_aSwimmer among the stars : stories _hEnglish
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew Delhi _bAleph books _c2016
300			_a188
500			_aSwimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original and probing mind.’ - Amitav Ghosh. The fiction debut of the year. An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess’s palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours his food with precious stones. A coterie of international diplomats trapped in near-earth orbit. These, and the other stories in this collection, reveal an extraordinary storyteller, whose tales emerge from a tradition that includes the creators of the Arabian Nights and the Kathasaritsagara, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter and other ancient and modern masters of fabulist, surrealist and magical short stories. Furiously inventive, beautifully crafted and remarkably assured, Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a blazing new talent.
650			_aShort stories
942			_cBK
999			_c81376 _d81376