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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
English
ISBN: 0393068005
EAN: 9780393068009
Category: Fiction / Short Stories (Single Author)
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Release Date: 02/16/2009
Synopsis: Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistans cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddins linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landowner, his servants and managers, and his extended family, industrialists who have lost touch with the land. In the spirit of Joyces Dubliners and Turgenevs A Sportsmans Sketches, these stories comprehensively illuminate a world, describing members of parliament and farm workers, Islamabad society girls and desperate servant women. A hard-driven politician at the height of his powers falls critically ill and seeks to perpetuate his legacy; a girl from a declining Lahori family becomes a wealthy relatives mistress, thinking there will be no cost; an electrician confronts a violent assailant in order to protect his most valuable possession; a maidservant who advances herself through sexual favors unexpectedly falls in love. Together the stories in In Other Rooms, Other Wonders make up a vivid portrait of feudal Pakistan, describing the advantages and constraints of social station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. Refined, sensuous, by turn humorous, elegiac, and tragic, Mueenuddin evokes the complexities of the Pakistani feudal order as it is undermined and transformed.
Awards: Commonwealth Writers Prize – null Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null National Book Awards – null New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null Pulitzer Prize – null
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Illustrated: No
Format: Hardcover
Height: 0.1 inches
Width: 0.5 inches
Length: 0.8 inches
Weight: 16.05 oz
Pages: 256
