The paradise of food / Khalid Jawed; translated by Baran Farooqi.

By:

Jawed, Khalid [author.]

Contributor(s):

Farooqi, Baran [Translator]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Juggernaut Books, 2022Description: 402 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789391165642 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 891.4393 JAW 019246

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	891.4393 JAW 019246 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		019246

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

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