Synopsis
'Do read this . . . I don't think I've ever read a collection which exuberantly spans such breadths of time and space.' Mark Haddon
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...
Details
22 March 2018256 pages
9781509822201Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Do read this . . . I don't think I've ever read a collection which exuberantly spans such breadths of time and space.Mark Haddon
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.Sunday Times
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.Amitav Ghosh
[A] dazzling first book of short stories . . . A near pitch-perfect collection.i
