{"product_id":"in-other-rooms-other-wonders","title":"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIn Other Rooms, Other Wonders\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDaniyal Mueenuddin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393068009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003ePassing 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 \u003cem\u003eDubliners\u003c\/em\u003e and Turgenev's \u003cem\u003eA Sportsman's Sketches\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Together the stories in \u003cem\u003eIn Other Rooms, Other Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | Daniyal Mueenuddin | Hardcover | 9780393068009 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1756255","offer_id":49146540032152,"sku":"1756255","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51zsh2rXYnL.jpg?v=1779466535","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/in-other-rooms-other-wonders","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}