In Other Rooms, Other Wonders [Paperback]

Starred Review. An elegant stylist with a light touch, Mueenuddin invites the reader to a richly human, wondrous experience.Remarkable.& a poignant picture of Punjabi life.Mueenuddins talent lets us perceive not just [Pakistans] machinations but also its beauty.& In this labyrinth of power games and exploits, Mueenuddin inserts luminous glimmers of longing, loss and, most movingly, unfettered love.Mueenuddin convincingly captures the mindset or speech of any class.& A collection full of pleasures.[Mueenuddins] crisp, vivid voice glides effortlessly into his various characters heads.& Dark stuff, but full of beauty.Daniyal Mueenuddin takes us into a sumptuously created world, peopled with characters who are both irresistible and compellingly human. His stories unfold with the authenticity and resolute momentum of timeless classics.A stunning achievement. This superb collection ranges across a vast swath of contemporary Pakistanfrom megacities to isolated villages, from feudal landlords to servant girlsand such is its narrative power that I couldnt stop turning the page. Daniyal Mueenuddin is a writer of enormous ambition, and he has the prodigious talent to match.A blazingly good writer. He brings to vivid and compelling life a country and its people.Daniyal Mueenuddins Pakistanis are like Chekhovs Russians, so fully realized that we never wonder over what motivates them. They are living, breathing presencessometimes brought so close that, I daresay, you hear the sounds of their breathing and the roll of gravel under their feet.Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction and the 2009