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W. W. Norton & Company
February 2009
On Sale: February 1, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 0393068005
EAN: 9780393068009
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 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.
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