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Leadership - Promoting Leadership & Intrapersonal Development in University Students

English · Hardback

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About the author

Kanishk Tharoor is an Indian writer based in New York City. His journalism, criticism, and short stories have appeared in international and Indian publications; his story 'Tale of the Teahouse' was shortlisted for a US National Magazine Award. He studied at Yale, Columbia, and at New York University.

Summary

'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
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 an elephant from Kerala to a princess's palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours his food with precious stones. A coterie of international diplomats trapped in near-Earth orbit.
The stories in Swimmer Among the Stars reveal an extraordinary young storyteller in Kanishk Tharoor, whose tales emerge from a tradition that includes the creators of the Arabian Nights, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter and other ancient and modern masters of the fable.

Foreword

Furiously inventive, beautifully crafted and remarkably assured, Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a blazing Indian talent.

Additional text

Kanishk Tharoor’s mind is an overflowing library from which he pulls Persian folklore Egyptian history, Anglo-Saxon poetry and 20th-century politics. He prods the world with his great stick of irony and vast imagination . . . Wherever he goes and in whatever era, Mr Tharoor is original, unselfconscious and relevant.

Product details

Assisted by Cecilia Ma (Editor), Joav Merrick (Editor), Professor Joav Merrick (Editor), Daniel TL Shek (Editor)
Publisher Nova Science Publishers Inc
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.06.2017
 
EAN 9781536119503
ISBN 978-1-5361-1950-3
No. of pages 260
Dimensions 261 mm x 186 mm x 20 mm
Weight 644 g
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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