In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Author: Daniyal Mueenuddin
A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan.,,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 fami….Read More
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