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Title: Swimmer Among The Stars
Author: THAROOR KANISHK
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 28/03/2017
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
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 young storyteller, 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.
ISBN: 9781509822218
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 208