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Swimmer Among the Stars

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22 March 2018
256 pages
9781509822201
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Do read this . . . I don't think I've ever read a collection which exuberantly spans such breadths of time and space.
Hypnotic . . . Tharoor's prose is calm and unassertive . . . His writing has the clarity and imaginative expansiveness of fable . . . Tharoor's work has something in common with the fantastical world-building of writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, but there is also a distinct fairy-tale quality, connecting him to a much older storytelling tradition.
Haunting and mysteriously powerful . . . Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original and probing mind.
[A] dazzling first book of short stories . . . A near pitch-perfect collection.