I am an executioner
Subtitle: love stories
By: by Rajesh Parameswaran
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781408817766; 9781408825747; 9781408831144
Subjects: American Short stories; Amerikanisches Englisch; Romance fiction; Kurzgeschichte
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The infamous Bengal Ming; title: The strange career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan; title: Four Rajeshes; title: I am an executioner; title: Demons; title: Narrative of Agent 97-4702; title: Bebhutibhushhan Mallik's final storyboard; title: Elephants in captivity (part one); title: On the banks of the Table River / (Planet Lucinda, Andromeda Galaxy, AD 2319).