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In Other Rooms Other Wonders

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In the spirit of Joyce's Dubliners and Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, Daniyal Mueenuddin's collection of linked stories illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in the countryside outside of Lahore, Pakistan. An aging feudal landlord's household staff, the villagers who depend on his favor, and a network of relations near and far who have sought their fortune in the cities confront the advantages and constraints of station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. Mueenuddin bares - at times humorously, at times tragically - the complexities of Pakistani class and culture and presents a vivid picture of a time and a place, of the old powers and the new, as the Pakistani feudal order is undermined and transformed.

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823.92 MUE i

Publisher

USA : W. W. Norton & Company., 2009

Collation

247p; bw; hc

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780393068009

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823.92

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Subject(s)

Fiction
Social Classes - Pakistan - Fiction

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