February 15, 2009
Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Books & Authors.
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A ride to remember
 Daniyal Mueenuddin paints a vivid portrayal of Pakistan’s feudal class in his recently published book of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders...
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REVIEWS; Over the cliff, onto the rocks
 I hate series books — especially those that leave me vulnerable to juvenile feelings of a 13-year old teenage girl experiencing her first crush: the obsession, the continuous day-dreaming and the mental...
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REVIEWS: Sweetness and light
 Interlink Books in the United States has long made an effort to represent writing from the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. Novels translated from Arabic are rare in an American literary market largely...
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REVIEWS: A clear picture
 Daniyal Mueenuddin’s impressive debut, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is a collection of short stories linked to one another via the family estates of a Punjabi landlord and retired civil servant....
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REVIEWS: Of saints and mad monks
 ‘In our scientifically shaped mentality’, says the author, ‘the spiritual was believed to exist only as Fata Morgana — sort of an illusive mirage — of the native eye’ (consider its relevance to our own phantom ‘victories’ in Fata)....
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From the past
 A Jataka, says the author, is a story about a birth, and this truly charming and highly didactic collection of tales is based on the repeated births — and deaths — of the bodhisattva, the being...
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REVIEWS: Err to learn
 I wouldn’t tell you how good Blood and Guts: A history of surgery is. I would much rather let it speak for itself; my favourite passage among the many in this book is the ‘Night of the Pigs...
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A fluid tale
 IT is interesting how intelligent and resourceful the human species is, and yet it remains essentially vulnerable before the might of nature and its design. Humans have charted a journey through history...
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PROFILES: For all times
 I had planned to commence this article with Faiz Sahib’s legendary poem Dua but then I recalled what took place a few years ago at an event in Hyderabad, Deccan where...
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ARTICLE: The one and the only
 Showering encomiums on Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib’s poetry is like employing rich epithets to describe William Shakespeare’s tragedies or Salvador Dali’s surrealistic strokes. Ghalib’s couplets are what he is....
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COLUMN: Flawless craft
 A research work generally serves the purpose of bringing back into the limelight some important figures of the past who may have receded into oblivion. And, the newly published research work...
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Jules Verne
 TO the modern reader the notion of travelling around the world in 80 days is not a big deal. Even a trip to the moon is no longer just a dream. But transport yourself about 150 years in the past...
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