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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Hardback)
Short Description for In Other Rooms, Other WondersA powerful collection of linked stories about the entwined lives of masters and servants set in Pakistan
Full description- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Published: 06 April 2009
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9780747597131 ISBN 10: 0747597138
- Sales rank: 192,469
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Full description for In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
The linked stories in In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminate a place and a people as they describe the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family: the servants and dependents in Mr. K.K. Harouni's overflowing Lahore household, the peasants on his estates who rely on his favor, and the parallel world of his industrialist brother, who has distanced himself from the feudal past. Inextricably bound to each other, the characters confront the advantages and constraints of station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. A girl, a socialite from a decayed feudal family, tires of endless parties, of drinking and drugs, and marries a young landlord in an attempt to reinvent herself. A light-fingered electrician who by tricks and ingenuity supports his twelve daughters comes perilously close to losing all that he has worked for. Elsewhere, an aged laborer by a stroke of luck earns enough money to marry a young, mentally disturbed girl - who vanishes soon after the wedding, exposing the old man to charges of murder.These richly textured stories reveal - at times humorously, at times tragically - the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of this diverse group of characters. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders marks the arrival of a major new literary talent.
