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Also by Daniyal Mueenuddin:

This Is Where the Serpent Lives, January 2026
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, November 2009
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, February 2009
Hardcover

IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS
By: Daniyal Mueenuddin

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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