I Am an Executioner Love Stories

Name: I Am an Executioner Love Stories
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ISBN: 9780307743411

ISBN-10: 0307743411

ISBN-13: 9780307743411

Edition: N/A

Authors: Rajesh Parameswaran

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An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.InI Am an Executioner,Rajesh Parameswaran introduces us to a cast of heroes—and antiheroes—who spring from his riotous, singular imagination. From the lovesick tiger who narrates the unforgettable opener, “The Infamous Bengal Ming” (he mauls his zookeeper out of affection), to the ex-CompUSA employee who masquerades as a doctor; from a railroad manager in a turn-of-the-century Indian village, to an elephant writing her autobiography; from a woman whose Thanksgiving preparations put her husband to…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.94" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

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.