Rajesh Parameswaran
Rajesh Parameswaran is a graduate of Yale Law School. His stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, Fiction, and Book. ‘The Strange Career of Doctor Raju Gopalarajan’ earned McSweeney’s a National Magazine Award and was anthologized in Best American Magazine Writing 2007. He has had residencies at Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony.
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I Am an Executioner
- By: Rajesh Parameswaran
- Narrator: Neil Shah
- Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 10, 2012
- Language: English
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In the unforgettable opener, ‘The Infamous Bengal Ming,’ a misunderstood tiger’s 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 this collection 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.
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