In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction: a major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan.
Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistanâ€™s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddinâ€™s 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 Joyceâ€™s Dubliners and Turgenevâ€™s A Sportsmanâ€™s 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 relativeâ€™s 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2009-02-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393068009

Country	USA
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2009-02-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393068009

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

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