I Am an Executioner by Rajesh Parameswaran

• All Critics: 14
• Positive: 9
• Negative: 5

• The Guardian | 12 May 2012

  This lively and off-kilter debut collection draws a little too heavily on the examples of Parameshwaran's US peers

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• The New York Times | 13 May 2012

  Thus realist revelation and postmodern speculation proceed in parallel, like the very railway tracks the primal Rajesh supervises. Despite their occasional contrivances, these are very much stories that make us “wonder the universe.”

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• Full Stop | 25 May 2012

  The collection, strong overall, suffers from two weak spots.

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• Huffington Post | 24 May 2012

  Rajesh Parameswaran has a sharp sense of what makes a story work, his stories reveal their mysteries gradually and very cleverly zero in on the heart of the matter.

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• Book People | 23 Apr 2012

  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.

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• Fiction Writers Review | 25 May 2012

  This collection might overwhelm a straight-through read. It would crumble your heart, then stomp it to pieces. After every story I had to stop and breathe, to let the feeling pass before going on to the next.

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• Kirkus Reviews | 10 Apr 2012

  An inventive, impressive and witty book.

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• Mumbai Boss | 30 Apr 2012

  I Am An Executioner is thus a very impressive debut. What’s even better news is that Parameswaran is reportedly working on his first novel. All those who had resigned themselves to fictional Indian immigrants being predictable, boring and flat, pour yourselves a drink and raise a toast to Parameswaran.

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• Washington Independent Review of Books | 10 Apr 2012

  Parameswaran’s stories are remarkable for their imaginative forays into the minds of animals, for depicting awkwardly unsophisticated but sympathetic and engaging Indians, and for singular, humorous sentence structures. I’m pleased to have spent time with these characters.

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• Publishers Weekly | 27 Feb 2012

  Despite this accomplishment, however, the other stories in this admirably risky debut collection vary wildly in both scope and success.

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• Baby Got Books | 1 May 2012

  In the end, I’m not sure what to say. I don’t know if the entire collection was worth it just for the three that I really, really liked, or if the fact that he front-loaded the book with the best story set me up for disappointment.

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• We Love This Book | 10 May 2012

  I Am an Executioner is an eclectic and imaginative collection with an amazing cast of characters, stories and settings that challenges the concept of the love story.

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• Genre Go Round Reviews | 29 Mar 2012

  These fascinating nine tales provide wonderful Kafka twists to “Love Stories.” All the entries are well written with intriguing protagonists

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• Capital New York | 13 Apr 2012

  The nine stories that make up his debut book, I Am An Executioner: Love Stories, out this week, are virtuosic things, summoning some of the wildness of the tiger that graces the cover.

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