In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

达尼亚尔•穆伊努丁，毕业于耶鲁法学院，曾以富布莱特学者身份在挪威从事研究，在回到巴基斯坦经营家族农场前，曾在纽约当律师。最近刚刚结束了在普罗文斯顿艺术中心的驻馆作家身份，目前多在开罗和巴基斯坦两地居住。

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Daniyal Mueenuddin

页数:256

出版时间:2010-4-16

价格:GBP 12.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393337204

图书标签:巴基斯坦文学Pulitzer英文小说原版manishPakistan

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 the spirit of Joyce s Dubliners and Turgenev s A Sportsman s Sketches, 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. Together the stories in In Other Rooms, Other Wonders 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.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2010 finalist

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2010 finalist

另一个世界的故事，描写得恰如其分，不夸张也不平淡

一本在纽约客上的小故事结集的书，看完胸闷的慌，一个贫富悬殊一个穷人没有期盼的国家。不过，话说回来，哪个国家的赤贫阶层有期盼？也一解我一直以来的一个疑惑：为什么有些巴国人可以那么富裕，而且举止言谈都非常的英国，而且是几辈人都这样。

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2010 finalist