Swimmer Among the Stars

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Swimmer Among the Stars

Kanishk Tharoor
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"[A] writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original, and probing mind." —Amitav Ghosh

In one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor's Swimmer Among the Stars, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language's last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan's marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city's walls.

With exuberant originality and startling vision, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and...

Editora:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Idioma:
english
ISBN 10:
0374715394
ISBN 13:
9780374715397
Arquivo:
EPUB, 511 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
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