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Author Mueenuddin, Daniyal.

Title In other rooms, other wonders / Daniyal Mueenuddin.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F MUEENUDDIN    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  F MUE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F MUEENUDD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  MUEENUDDIN, DANIYUAL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F MUEENUDDIN, D.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MUEENUDDIN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F MUEENUDDIN, DANIYAL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  MUEENUDDIN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 247 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Nawabdin electrician -- Saleema -- Provide, provide -- About a burning girl -- In other rooms, other wonders -- Our Lady of Paris -- Lily -- Spoiled man.
Summary 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.
Subject Social classes -- Pakistan -- Fiction.
Pakistan -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780393068009
0393068005
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