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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin

 
Description: ISBN 0747597138 / Genre: Fiction / Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin / Edition: UK First Edition; 1st printing. / Hardcover / 256 Pages / Book ... more
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin ... is published 2009-04-06 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Newest Review: ... Other Rooms, Other Wonders are linked by a shared connection to the person of K.K. Harouni, an old-style Lahore landowner. ... more

 ... Some are connected rather vaguely - the characters might be his distant relatives or even their employees; in others K.K. Harouni appears himself. From the partying young jet-setters of the richest families , to the simplest of the peasants at the rural estates, the characters in Mueenuddin's stories are seen in the mundane intimacy of their day to day existence and at the crucial junctions when making decisions or subject to fates that change entire course of their lives; and in the web of connections that links ever...more

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Premium Review In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - Daniyal Mueenuddin: Richly Textured Melancholy Tales (617 words)
by - written on 15/10/09 (Very useful, 27 readings)
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A readable, luminous, economical and utterly absorbing picture of Pakistani society told in stories of lives of interconnected characters, from the rural poor to the jest-setting rich. * A chambermaid starts an affair with an elderly valet and bears him a child. A corrupt factor puts enough on the side to become a landowner and a politician and then falls in love with his driver's relative whom he employed as a servant. A man is accused of murdering his brother's wife by pouring kerosene on her and setting her on fire: his brother comes to ask a cynical judge for help. An elderly, rich landowner takes a young woman from a once grand family now ...  Read the complete review

 

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