Swimmer Among the Stars

''Do read this . . . I don''t think I''ve ever read a collection which exuberantly spans such breadths of time and space.'' Mark Haddon

An interview with the last speaker of a language. A chronicle of the final seven days of a town that is about to be razed to the ground by an invading army. The lonely voyage of an elephant from Kerala to a princess''s palace in Morocco. A fabled cook who flavours ...