Swimmer Among the Stars

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and NPR

"A writer who is gifted not just with extraordinary talent but also with a subtle, original, and probing mind." -Amitav Ghosh

In one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor's Swimmer Among the Stars, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity-for after rising seas destroy Manhattan, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales, a team of anthropologists trek...