Ebook {Epub PDF} Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories by Kanishk Tharoor

 · SWIMMER AMONG THE STARS. Stories. By Kanishk Tharoor. pp. Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ In the opening story of this remarkably Author: Meron Hadero.  · Recursiveness is the hallmark of Kanishk Tharoor’s short fiction. “Furiously inventive, beautifully crafted and remarkably assured, Swimmer among the Stars announces the arrival of a blazing new talent,” reads the jacket blurb on Kanishk Tharoor’s debut volume of short bltadwin.ru For: The Indian Express.  · In the title story ‘Swimmer Among the Stars’ an elderly woman's voice is recorded by ethnographers as she is the last person to speak her native language. She considers how “Humans always lose more history than they ever possess.” Also, the story gives a deeply fascinating perspective on the social meaning of words and language's evolution.

Kanishk Tharoor. Kanishk Tharoor is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars, a collection of short fiction, and the presenter of the BBC radio series Museum of Lost. "Swimmer Among the Stars," the title story of Kanishk Tharoor's debut collection, tackles one of the trickiest subjects for fiction writers: using language to discuss language itself. 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 bltadwin.ru other tales, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language's last surviving speaker intoning.

Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories, a collection of short fiction. His journalism and criticism have appeared in international and Indian publications. His short fiction was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the U.S. He writes the “Cosmopolis” column for The Hindu Business Line’s BLINK magazine. Kanishk Tharoor’s debut short fiction collection Swimmer Among the Stars melts the idea of time and space into a fantastic journey over 12 tales. That’s not all it has to offer, however. As your mind lulls itself into slotting one tale into a particular time period, the next one jumps at you from an entirely new era. “Kanishk Tharoor’s debut book Swimmer among the Stars: Stories is a magnificent collection of short fiction. It transports one into a different world, especially with its minute details, achieving the near-impossible with words.” — Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, The Hindu.