Sara Suleri’s outstanding, critically acclaimed (and prize-winning) memoir of life in Lahore.
‘A tour de force of memory and interpretation...What makes Meatless Days such an astonishing book is its corrosive effect on partitions of all kinds – between body and history, politics and poetry, language and experience, the East and the West. Suleri seems to find nourishment in the most indigestible truths. Beware her prose at its most luscious: cunningly – appetizingly– enfolded in a mango leaf, a mouthful of stones awaits.’ Village Voice
‘A linguistic triumph...it can be recommended not only for the intricacy and fluidity of its language but also for the finely drawn portrait of Pakistan in the traumatic early years of its inception.’ JO-ANN GOODWIN, City Limits
‘An extraordinary first book. The reader retains a sensation of infinite sadness at losses so irreplaceable that life seems bleached of possibilities. As an evocation of family love, with all its sharpness, pain and need, Meatless Days is almost faultless.’ CAROLINE MOOREHEAD, New Statesman
‘A super-subtle book with a surgical intellectual frankness and a poetic precision which crisps the reader into paying absolute attention.’ CANDIA MCWILLIAM, London Review of Books
‘Worthwhile reading? Very. It is unique’ RUMER GODDEN, Daily Telegraph
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 186 pages. Cover wornThis is an autobiography of Sara Suleri, and records her experiences as she grew up during the struggle f or independence in Pakistan. Her mother was Welsh, while her fath er was Z.A. Suleri, a prominent Pakistani journalist frequently a t odds with the Bhutto regime and jailed for his writing. It is i n the intermingling of public and private history that she tells a series of stories which proceed through metaphor rather than ch ronology. Suleri recounts her mother's exile, her sister Ifat's e strangement from their father, her grandmother's love of god and food, and finally her own departure for the United States. Throug hout, she writes of a place where the concept of a woman was not really part of an available vocabulary. Seller Inventory # 1487ae
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is an autobiography of Sara Suleri, and records her experiences as she grew up during the struggle for independence in Pakistan. Her mother was Welsh, while her father was Z.A. Suleri, a prominent Pakistani journalist frequently at odds with the Bhutto regime and jailed for his writing. It is in the intermingling of public and private history that she tells a series of stories which proceed through metaphor rather than chronology. Suleri recounts her mother's exile, her sister Ifat's estrangement from their father, her grandmother's love of god and food, and finally her own departure for the United States. Throughout, she writes of a place where the concept of a woman was not really part of an available vocabulary. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001505378
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. This is an autobiography of Sara Suleri, and records her experiences as she grew up during the struggle for independence in Pakistan. Her mother was Welsh, while her father was Z.A. Suleri, a prominent Pakistani journalist frequently at odds with the Bhutto regime and jailed for his writing. It is in the intermingling of public and private history that she tells a series of stories which proceed through metaphor rather than chronology. Suleri recounts her mother's exile, her sister Ifat's estrangement from their father, her grandmother's love of god and food, and finally her own departure for the United States. Throughout, she writes of a place where the concept of a woman was not really part of an available vocabulary. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001341272
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