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A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan. 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 baresat times humorously, at times tragicallythe 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. "A stunning achievement....Such is its narrative power that I couldn't stop turning the page."Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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more...]]> 3 1 true false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 13:14:09 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 15:05:11 -0700 2009 1 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is an easily flowing collection of short stories in which the characters are linked somehow to the estate of K. K. Harouni, a powerful landowner. Set in Islamabad and rural Pakistan, the collection endeavors to give a larger picture of the workings of Pakistani life, de...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 07:15:12 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 09:51:06 -0700 2009
In Other Rooms,Other Wonders is a collection of eight short stories. Mueenuddin interlaces these eight stories, linking them to the househol...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 12:40:03 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 15:33:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 06 06:34:37 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 26 11:49:04 -0700 2009
In fiction, I like short stories best. I was intrigued by an interview with Daniyal Mueenuddin on NPR that I heard a few weeks ago. My good friend Donna is interested in this part of the world and has friends that live in Pakistan. It was partly her interest in Pakistan and its people th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 31 18:41:05 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 18:41:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:36:40 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 18:04:09 -0700 2009
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The story is told through a series of short stories that center on one of the feudal famil...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 06:15:42 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 06:25:17 -0700 2009
This is Kit’s book. I don’t think the writing was that great but I was still fascinated with the descriptions of Pakistan and enjoyed reading about it. I have to say it seemed more like a romance n...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 11 04:26:31 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 13:38:16 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 04:26:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 15:47:33 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 17:09:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 15:16:55 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 19:07:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 25 03:20:35 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 03:24:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 04:38:12 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 04:41:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 07 14:10:18 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:24:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4657432