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Daniyal Mueenuddin

Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of the acclaimed "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders," was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie, and the forthcoming PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2010. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan's southern Punjab.

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14 years ago

text In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

This book was a lovely surprise. I picked it up because I needed a book set in Pakistan for the Around the World in 80 books challenge. It's a lovely, lovely book of short stories, most of them set around Lahore and in the world of an important family, the Harouni. The stories feature members of the...

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Merle rated it

56 years ago

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World fiction is popular these days, and I love it as much as anyone (probably more than most), but in our enthusiasm for exotic settings, we shouldn't be blinded to the importance of strong plotting and characterization either. Unfortunately, this is a book that lacks those strengths.In Other Rooms...

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