I Am An Executioner
Love Stories
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 2012
272 pages
978-1-4088-2117-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Bengal tiger wakes up one morning realising he is ravenously in love. A pompous railway supervisor in a small Indian village bites off more than he can chew when a peculiar new clerk arrives on his doorstep. In another place and in another time, a secret agent who spends her days watching the front door of an unknown quarry discovers something she isn't meant to. An immigrant housewife in an American suburb geeing up for Thanksgiving makes a wish she may come to regret. And a small and famous country's only executioner claims his conscience is as clean as his heavy, washed stones.
With this glittering, savage and elegant first collection, where reality loops in mind-bending twists and dazzles with cinematic exuberance, where frayed photographs take on a life of their own and where elephants wish only to die with dignity, Rajesh Parameswaran bursts onto the literary landscape as an astonishing new talent.
With this glittering, savage and elegant first collection, where reality loops in mind-bending twists and dazzles with cinematic exuberance, where frayed photographs take on a life of their own and where elephants wish only to die with dignity, Rajesh Parameswaran bursts onto the literary landscape as an astonishing new talent.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-2117-6 (9781408821176)
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Person
Rajesh Parameswaran was born in Chennai, India and moved to the United States as an infant. His short stories have appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, Zoetrope: All-Story and Fiction. 'The Strange Career of Doctor Raju Gopalarajan' was one of three stories for which McSweeney's won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2007, and it was included in The Best American Magazine Writing and in The United States of McSweeney's: Ten Years of Accidental Classics. Rajesh Parameswaran lives in New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Infamous Bengal Ming
- The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan
- Four Rajeshes
- I Am an Executioner
- Demons
- Narrative of Agent 97-4702
- Bibhutibhushan Mallik's Final Storyboard
- Elephants in Captivity (Part One)
- On the Banks of Table River (Planet Lucina, Andromeda Galaxy, AD 2319)
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- eCopyright
