In Other Rooms, Other Wonders - by Daniyal Mueenuddin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the spirit of James Joyce's "Dubliners," 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 Lahore, Pakistan.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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. Refined, sensuous, by turns humorous, elegiac, and tragic, Mueenuddin evokes the complexities of the Pakistani feudal order as it is undermined and transformed.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>In Other Rooms, Other Wonders</em> is a collection full of pleasures...on every page there are wonderful, surprising observations and details.-- "Washington Post"<br><br>[Mueenuddin's] crisp, vivid voice glides effortlessly into his various characters' heads.... Dark stuff, but full of beauty.-- "Entertainment Weekly"<br><br>An elegant stylist with a light touch, Mueenuddin invites the reader to a richly human, wondrous experience.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"<br><br>Daniyal Mueenuddin's Pakistanis are like Chekhov's Russians, so fully realized that we never wonder over what motivates them. They are living, breathing presences--sometimes brought so close that, I daresay, you hear the sounds of their breathing and the roll of gravel under their feet. <em>In Other Rooms, Other Wonders</em> brings us a new way of seeing the world, and it is one that we could not have anticipated.--Elizabeth Evans, author of Carter Clay<br><br>Like Turgenev...Mueenuddin has an eye for the tragedy and beauty in lives that a lesser writer might regard merely as miserable or eccentric...In recent years, Pakistan has been regarded in the West with anger and horror. Perhaps Mueenuddin's portrait will help to bring it a different kind of attention, colored with sorrow and even fondness.-- "New York Review of Books"<br><br>Reading Daniyal Mueenuddin's mesmerizing first collection is like watching a game of blackjack, the shrewd players calculating their way beyond their dealt cards in an attempt to beat the dealer...In this labyrinth of power games and exploits, Mueenuddin instills luminous glimmers of longing, loss and, most movingly, unfettered love.-- "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>Remarkable.... a poignant picture of Punjabi life.-- "The Economist"<br><br>The eight short stories of Daniyal Mueenuddin's enchanting debut are dreamlike, illuminating contemporary Pakistan's societal contradictions in prose as clear and serene as the contradictions themselves are subtle and tumultuous.-- "Boston Globe"<br><br>A stunning achievement. This superb collection ranges across a vast swath of contemporary Pakistan--from megacities to isolated villages, from feudal landlords to servant girls--and such is its narrative power that I couldn't stop turning the page. Daniyal Mueenuddin is a writer of enormous ambition, and he has the prodigious talent to match.--Mohsin Hamid<br><br>Daniyal Mueenuddin takes us into a sumptuously created world, peopled with characters who are both irresistible and compellingly human. His stories unfold with the authenticity and resolute momentum of timeless classics.--Manil Suri<br>
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