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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin
RM22.57 MYR
RM20.31 MYR Thryft Club Member Price
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Thryft
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Thryft

Intricate tales of class in Pakistan.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders provides an intimate and complex look at the lives of an extended Pakistani landowning family and their interactions with the servant and estate worker classes. The linked short stories provide a nuanced view of class and cultural issues in Pakistan, with characters facing issues of love, loss, and societal change. If you are interested in exploring the intricate social dynamics of Pakistan's upper class, this book would be a great read.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2010)
  • O. Henry Award for 'A Spoiled Man' (2010)
  • Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2010)
  • The Story Prize (2009)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Nominee (2010)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South Asia and Europe (2010)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2009)
  • DSC Prize Nominee for South Asian Literature for Longlist (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin
RM22.57 MYR
RM20.31 MYR Thryft Club Member Price
ISBN: 9780747597131
Authors: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date of Publication: 2009-02-27
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Asia
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 6829 readers)

Description

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. “The rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri.”― Financial Times Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan’s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Daniyal Mueenuddin’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 Joyce’s Dubliners and Turgenev’s A Sportsman’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 relative’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.
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Intricate tales of class in Pakistan.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders provides an intimate and complex look at the lives of an extended Pakistani landowning family and their interactions with the servant and estate worker classes. The linked short stories provide a nuanced view of class and cultural issues in Pakistan, with characters facing issues of love, loss, and societal change. If you are interested in exploring the intricate social dynamics of Pakistan's upper class, this book would be a great read.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2010)
  • O. Henry Award for 'A Spoiled Man' (2010)
  • Rosenthal Family Foundation Award (2010)
  • The Story Prize (2009)
  • The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Nominee (2010)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South Asia and Europe (2010)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2009)
  • DSC Prize Nominee for South Asian Literature for Longlist (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.