Myth, history and speculative invention run together in Kanishk Tharoor's story collection, which moves across centuries and continents without ever settling into one register. The prose is the main pleasure.
Individual stories place unusual characters in situations that turn philosophical without announcing it, and the settings range from imagined antiquity to recognisable present-day places. Language, memory, power and the shape of empire surface repeatedly. Read straight through, the collection builds a single argument about imagination; read one at a time, each piece holds up on its own terms.
What this collection holds:
• Stories moving between myth, history and invented futures
• Elegant, controlled prose with a distinctive rhythm
• Recurring concerns with language, memory and power
• Pieces that read well singly or as a sequence
Suited to readers of literary short fiction and magical realism, available in English at Boipoka.
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