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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
April 1, 1989
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226779805
ISBN-10
0226779807
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 9 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$21.95
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memoriesâof her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five siblings; and of her own passage to the West.
"Nine autobiographical tales that move easily back and forth among Pakistan, Britain, and the United States. . . . She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply
into the history of her family and friends. . . . The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing."âDaniel Wolfe, New York Times Book Review
"A jewel of insight and beauty. . . . Suleri's voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes."âRone Tempest, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs."âAnita Desai, Washington Post Book World
"Meatless Days takes the reader through a Third World that will surprise and confound him even as it records the author's similar perplexities while coming to terms with the West. Those voyages Suleri narrates in great strings of words and images so rich that they left this reader . . . hungering for more."âRon Grossman, Chicago Tribune
"Dazzling. . . . Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie's phantasmagorical Pynchon."âHenry Louise Gates, Jr., Voice Literary Supplement
"Nine autobiographical tales that move easily back and forth among Pakistan, Britain, and the United States. . . . She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply
into the history of her family and friends. . . . The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing."âDaniel Wolfe, New York Times Book Review
"A jewel of insight and beauty. . . . Suleri's voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes."âRone Tempest, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs."âAnita Desai, Washington Post Book World
"Meatless Days takes the reader through a Third World that will surprise and confound him even as it records the author's similar perplexities while coming to terms with the West. Those voyages Suleri narrates in great strings of words and images so rich that they left this reader . . . hungering for more."âRon Grossman, Chicago Tribune
"Dazzling. . . . Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie's phantasmagorical Pynchon."âHenry Louise Gates, Jr., Voice Literary Supplement
Editions
Hardcover
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (April 1, 1989)
9780226779805 | details & prices | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $21.95
About: In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memoriesâof her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.
About: In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memoriesâof her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.
Paperback
from Univ of Chicago Pr (June 11, 1991)
9780226779812 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $14.00
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