In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Feature
- ISBN13: 9780393068009
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Overview
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction: a major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan. 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. .
Customer Reviews
This is related to a collection of eight short stories that describe the superposition of an extended family of Pakistani landowners. There are the tales of servants and relatives crowded into the world of the budget, Mr KK Haroun in Lahore and peasants on his property, and the parallel worlds of his relations, who have distanced themselves from their feudal past.
The characters of these stories are the advantages and limitations of theirTo change the situation, the dissolution of old ways and the shock associated. Meet Lily, the public figure who marries tired of endless parties, a young master of the house in an attempt to reinvent themselves. There are Nawabdin, the electrician, whose light fingers ingenuity enables him to his daughters, 12 in support, until they lost almost everything. Justice to the old worker who earns enough money to marry, but when his wife disappeared shortly after the murder is suspected.
We are happyStory here: the rich are selfish and shallow, poor people trying to survive. Yet the tragedy is imbued with humor from time to time. These stories, with their different characters, their efforts to love, triumphs and occasional misunderstandings illustrate the complexity of a class and culture, which is in a transitional phase.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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