Description: "Tharoor is clearly a monumental talent, and his debut is a pleasure, from the first page to the last." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Tharoor's collection is imaginative and relevant." -- Publishers Weekly "It's been years since I've encountered a collection as beguiling as Swimmer Among the Stars . Kanishk Tharoor seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed, possessed of his own mischievous and erudite voice, already at the full height of his powers. Literary debuts are often described as 'promising'; here are stories that read like promises fulfilled." --John Wray "Like the storytellers of old, as well as the art's 20th century masters, Kanishk Tharoor brings together times past and our present day in his dazzling fables where the exotic and the mundane, the lost and the hoped for, are woven into images that remind the reader that it is through sharing stories, and maybe stories alone, that civilizations and their subjects come together in surviving whatever tasks history sets for them." --Sjn "These stories gleam with the light of an authentic and wholly original imagination, beautifully crafted and in possession of an untamed, almost feral sense of creativity. With Borgesian intelligence and great tenderness of heart, Tharoor reminds us how vital it is to tell stories, and how urgently we need to consume them." --Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

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