The paradise of food /
Jawed, Khalid,
The paradise of food / Khalid Jawed; translated by Baran Farooqi. - 402 pages ; 23 cm.
Originally published in Urdu as Ne'mat Khama by Arshia Publications 2014.
Khalid Jawed is one of the most original and extraordinary writers in Urdu today. The Paradise of Food is an Urdu classic known for its radical, experimental form and savage and dark honesty. It tells the story of a middle-class Muslim joint family over a span of fifty years. As India – and Islamic culture – hardens, the narrator, whose life we follow from boyhood to old age, struggles to find a place for himself, at odds in his home and in the world outside. But to describe the novel in its plot is to do its originality no justice. In this profoundly daring work – tense, mysterious, even unfathomable on occasion – Jawed builds an atmosphere of gloom and grotesqueness to draw out his themes. And in doing so he penetrates deep into the dark heart of middle-class Muslims today
English.
9789391165642 (hbk.)
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2022326743
India Fiction--India--Novel
Islam Fiction
Middle class families Fiction
Urdu Literature--Fiction
891.4393 JAW / 019246
The paradise of food / Khalid Jawed; translated by Baran Farooqi. - 402 pages ; 23 cm.
Originally published in Urdu as Ne'mat Khama by Arshia Publications 2014.
Khalid Jawed is one of the most original and extraordinary writers in Urdu today. The Paradise of Food is an Urdu classic known for its radical, experimental form and savage and dark honesty. It tells the story of a middle-class Muslim joint family over a span of fifty years. As India – and Islamic culture – hardens, the narrator, whose life we follow from boyhood to old age, struggles to find a place for himself, at odds in his home and in the world outside. But to describe the novel in its plot is to do its originality no justice. In this profoundly daring work – tense, mysterious, even unfathomable on occasion – Jawed builds an atmosphere of gloom and grotesqueness to draw out his themes. And in doing so he penetrates deep into the dark heart of middle-class Muslims today
English.
9789391165642 (hbk.)
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2022326743
India Fiction--India--Novel
Islam Fiction
Middle class families Fiction
Urdu Literature--Fiction
891.4393 JAW / 019246