TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jawed,Khalid
AU  - Farooqi,Baran
TI  - The paradise of food
SN  - 9789391165642 (hbk.)
U1  - 891.4393 JAW 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Juggernaut Books
KW  -  India Fiction
KW  - Novel
KW  - India
KW  - Islam Fiction
KW  - Middle class families Fiction
KW  - Urdu Literature
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Originally published in Urdu as Ne'mat Khama by Arshia Publications 2014
N2  - 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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