Swimmer Among the Stars

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book_author_name: 
Kanishk Tharoor
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Paperback
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Pan Macmillan
published_date: 
22/03/2018
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9781509822201
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Books > Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction
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Kanishk Tharoor|Paperback|Pan Macmillan|22/03/2018
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9781509822201
Book Description: 
'Do read this . . . I don't think I've ever read a collection which exuberantly spans such breadths of time and space.' Mark HaddonAn 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.The stories in Swimmer Among the Stars reveal an extraordinary young storyteller in Kanishk Tharoor, whose tales emerge from a tradition that includes the creators of the Arabian Nights, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter and other ancient and modern masters of the fable.

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