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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin
₱440.55
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Intimate portraits intertwining across Pakistan's social classes.

This collection of interconnected stories by Daniyal Mueenuddin will resonate with you if you're drawn to rich, nuanced storytelling. It's a tapestry that weaves together the lives of diverse characters across class lines in Pakistan, offering a hauntingly beautiful glimpse into their loves, losses, and the complexities of their social fabric. The raw humanity displayed in each narrative makes "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders" a profound read that stays with you long after you've turned the final page.

  • 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.
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Mueenuddin
₱440.55
ISBN: 9788184001075
Authors: Daniyal Mueenuddin
Publisher: Random House India
Date of Publication: 2010-03-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 6829 readers)

Description

Moving from the elegant drawing rooms of Lahore to the mud villages of rural Multan, a powerful collection of short stories about feudal Pakistan. An impoverished young woman becomes a wealthy relative’s mistress; an electrician on the make confronts his desperate assailant to protect his most prized possession; a farm manager rises far in the world—but his family discovers after his death the transience of power; a maid who advances herself through sexual favours, unexpectedly falls in love. In these linked stories about the family and household staff of the ageing KK Harouni, we meet masters and servants, landlords and supplicants, politicians and electricians, village women and Karachi housewives. Part Chekhov, part RK Narayan, these stories are dark and light, complex and humane; at heart about the relationship between the powerful and powerless, bound together in life—and in death. Together they make up a vivid portrait of a feudal world rarely brought alive in the English language. Sensuous, graceful, melancholy, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders gives you Pakistan as you have never seen it. It marks the debut of an amazing new talent.
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Intimate portraits intertwining across Pakistan's social classes.

This collection of interconnected stories by Daniyal Mueenuddin will resonate with you if you're drawn to rich, nuanced storytelling. It's a tapestry that weaves together the lives of diverse characters across class lines in Pakistan, offering a hauntingly beautiful glimpse into their loves, losses, and the complexities of their social fabric. The raw humanity displayed in each narrative makes "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders" a profound read that stays with you long after you've turned the final page.

  • 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.