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In other rooms, other wonders
Record details
- ISBN: 0393337200
- ISBN: 9780393337204
- ISBN: 0393073335
- ISBN: 9780393073331
- ISBN: 0393068005
- ISBN: 9780393068009
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Physical Description:
247 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W. Norton & Co., c2009.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Nawabdin electrician -- Saleema -- Provide, provide -- About a burning girl -- In other rooms, other wonders -- Our Lady of Paris -- Lily -- A spoiled man. |
| Awards Note: | National Book Award finalist, 2009. |
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| Subject: | Social classes Pakistan Fiction Pakistan Social conditions Fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Homer Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | F MUEENUDDIN (Text) | 000086019 | Fiction | Available | - |
In Other Rooms Other Wonders : Connected Stories
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In Other Rooms Other Wonders : Connected Stories
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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