In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Rilegato

Mueenuddin, Daniyal

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ISBN 10: 0393068005 ISBN 13: 9780393068009

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2009

Riassunto

A volume of linked stories describes the intertwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Pakistan, in a collection that explores such themes as culture, class power, and desire. 50,000 first printing.

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Advance Praise for In Other Rooms, Other Wonders:

“Astonishing . . . reveals a writer who seems to combine the intimate rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri. . . . In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is quite unlike anything recently published on the Indian side of the border, and throws the gauntlet down to a new generation of Indian writers. For the first time in this part of Asia, there is serious competition out there.”—William Dalrymple, Financial Times

“A stunning achievement. This superb collection ranges across a vast swath of contemporary Pakistan—from megacities to isolated villages, from feudal landlords to servant girls—and such is its narrative power that I couldn’t stop turning the page. Daniyal Mueenuddin is a writer of enormous ambition, and he has the prodigious talent to match.”—Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“A blazingly good writer. He brings to vivid and compelling life a country and its people.”—David Davidar, author of The Solitude of Emperors

“Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Pakistanis are like Chekhov’s Russians, so fully realized that we never wonder over what motivates them. They are living, breathing presences—sometimes brought so close that, I daresay, you hear the sounds of their breathing and the roll of gravel under their feet. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders brings us a new way of seeing the world, and it is one that we could not have anticipated.”—Elizabeth Evans, author of Carter Clay|Advance Praise for In Other Rooms, Other Wonders:“Astonishing . . . reveals a writer who seems to combine the intimate rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri. . . . In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is quite unlike anything recently published on the Indian side of the border, and throws the gauntlet down to a new generation of Indian writers. For the first time in this part of Asia, there is serious competition out there.”—William Dalrymple, Financial Times“A stunning achievement. This superb collection ranges across a vast swath of contemporary Pakistan—from megacities to isolated villages, from feudal landlords to servant girls—and such is its narrative power that I couldn’t stop turning the page. Daniyal Mueenuddin is a writer of enormous ambition, and he has the prodigious talent to match.”—Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist“A blazingly good writer. He brings to vivid and compelling life a country and its people.”—David Davidar, author of The Solitude of Emperors“Daniyal Mueenuddin’s Pakistanis are like Chekhov’s Russians, so fully realized that we never wonder over what motivates them. They are living, breathing presences—sometimes brought so close that, I daresay, you hear the sounds of their breathing and the roll of gravel under their feet. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders brings us a new way of seeing the world, and it is one that we could not have anticipated.”—Elizabeth Evans, author of Carter Clay

Product Description:

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 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. "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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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0393068005
• ISBN 13: 9780393068009
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 247