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Title details for In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Muyeenuddin - Available

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

by Daniyal Muyeenuddin
Firdous Bamji
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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.

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  • Release date

    August 27, 2009

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      • ISBN: 9781456110352
      • File size: 265060 KB
      • Duration: 09:12:12

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      These vivid short stories about the marginalized lives of poor Pakistanis are told with feeling by Firdous Bamji. He deftly moves between male and female characters across the range of villagers, servants, and landlords the writer has created. The listener experiences the heartbreak of maids looking for love among the male staff members of a household, wives who are unable to have children and suffer the presence of second wives, men who are frustrated by fate. Bamji masterfully slows down at poignant moments and speeds up to maintain a sense of urgency and dramatic tension. His narration brings the text to life and makes clear why Mueenuddin's book was short-listed for the National Book Award. M.R. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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