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| Material Type: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rajesh Parameswaran |
| ISBN: | 9780307595928 0307595927 |
| OCLC Number: | 745979747 |
| Description: | 259 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The infamous Bengal Ming -- The strange career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan -- Four Rajeshes -- I am an executioner -- Demons -- Narrative of Agent 97-4702 -- Bibhutibhushhan Mallik's final storyboard -- Elephants in captivity (part one) -- On the banks of the Table River (Planet Lucinda, Andromeda Galaxy, AD 2319). |
| Responsibility: | Rajesh Parameswaran. |
Abstract:
"An explosive fiction debut from an astonishing new voice: darkly funny, wildly original stories about the power of love, and the love of power--two urgent human desires that inevitably, and often calamitously, intertwine. The unforgettable opener, "The Infamous Bengal Ming," is narrated by a misunderstood tiger whose affection for his keeper goes horribly awry. In "Demons," a woman tries to celebrate Thanksgiving after the sudden death of her husband, even though his corpse is still sprawled on their living-room floor. In "The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan," an ex-CompUSA employee sets up a medical practice in a suburban strip mall armed only with textbooks from the local library and fake business cards. The heroes--and anti-heroes--of I Am An Executioner include a railroad manager in a turn-of-the-century Indian village, the newlywed executioner of the title, and an elephant writing her autobiography--the creations of a riotous, singular imagination that promises to dazzle the universe of American fiction"--
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