I Am An Executioner

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Truly original ... Parmeswaran is a young Indian writer with a talent to watch ... the brutal comedy and the plot's twists and turns were so gripping that I finished the whole book in one sitting ... his dazzling skills with language and characters make each story a miniature masterpiece * Daily Mail * Stories that are savagely funny, stories that haunt and sear and stun, stories so original they defy categorization above all, stories generously laden with sheer reading pleasure: I Am an Executioner is a brilliant and spellbinding collection * Manil Suri * I am an Executioner gets the pulse racing from word one. I love Rajesh because his last name is even more impossible than my own, and because he has redefined the American short story for me. Bravo! * Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story * The word "dazzling" is more often used than deserved in criticism but this is truly a dazzling, not to mention riotously funny and savagely memorable book * Irish Times * Each of these wild, utterly inventive stories is rich and satisfying in its own way. Parameswaran writes by his own rules, with brilliant results * Nell Freudenburger, author of The Newlyweds * In this debut collection, original, quirky and written with panache, Rajesh Parameswaran explores troubled lives - both human and animal - with compassion and humour. Readers will remember these unusual stories for a long time * Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of Palace of Illusions * This collection fizzes with a mesmeric, restless energy. Rajesh Parameswaran makes us believe the unbelievable - in his hands the fantastic becomes intimate and human * Tash Aw * Wonderful stories - like small, deft carnivals entering our desert cities and cranky towns to, for a while, muster us into feeling, resolution, and happiness, before they go on their way. We can't help but be grateful for them * Charlie Smith, author of Word Comix: Poems * His narrative virtuosity - his relentless forcing of the reader to readjust to new fictive surroundings, to play the game of getting to grips with who is speaking, where, and how we interpret it - makes I Am an Executioner peculiarly distinctive Times Literary Supplement * Times Literary Supplement *