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Book 2009

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Language
English
Published
2009
  • Literature
  • Social classes
  • Social conditions
  • Fiction
  • Short Stories
  • Pakistan, fiction
  • Master and servant
  • Manners and customs

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life.