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Swimmer Among the Stars

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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and NPR "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...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18224812
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9780374272180
ISBN:
9780374715397, 9780374272180

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