“Daniyal Mueenuddin’s masterful debut collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, reveals a modern Pakistan that is as beautiful as it is brutal [His] work evokes 19th-century Russian masters like Turgenev and Gogol, along with the Southern Gothic tradition of Faulkner and Truman Capote Mueenuddin is a prodigiously talented writer, capable of imagining the inner lives of Punjabi . · By Lajla Cline. Daniyal Mueenuddin's first collection of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, straddles both east and west, rural and urban, upper and lower class, just as the author has in his own life. The son of a Pakistani father and American mother, Mueenuddin lived his early childhood in Pakistan where he shared time between the urban and country homes of his www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. Immediately acclaimed, journalist and lawyer Daniyal Mueenuddin’s collection of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (), went on to win many awards, most notably becoming a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Consisting of eight lightly interlinked stories that take place in the Pakistan district of Punjab from the s through the s, Mueenuddin’s work draws from his .
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. by. Daniyal Mueenuddin. · Rating details · 6, ratings · reviews. 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. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST. 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 Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin. The central figure of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is K.K. Harouni, the sophisticated patriarch of a rich land-holding clan, though he.
“Daniyal Mueenuddin’s masterful debut collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, reveals a modern Pakistan that is as beautiful as it is brutal [His] work evokes 19th-century Russian masters like Turgenev and Gogol, along with the Southern Gothic tradition of Faulkner and Truman Capote Mueenuddin is a prodigiously talented writer, capable of imagining the inner lives of Punjabi aristocrats and their servants with equal sympathy, precision and power.”. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin. By PopMatters Staff / 22 March No one can accuse Daniyal Mueenuddin of poor timing. His debut collection of linked stories about life. Reading Daniyal Mueenuddin’s mesmerizing first collection, “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” is like watching a game of blackjack, the shrewd players calculating their way beyond their dealt.
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