The paradise of food
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Juggernaut books 2022Description: 402 pISBN: 9789391165642DDC classification: 891.439 Summary: A landmark Urdu classic translated for the first time 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. Superbly translated, The Paradise of Food is a novel like no other.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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891.43371 GEE/T Tomb of sand | 891.439 109 2 GUL/M Mirza Ghalib: a biographical scenario / | 891.439 ABI/G Gernaili sarak | 891.439 JAW/P The paradise of food | 891.439 NAT/W What will you give for this beauty? | 891.439 OXF Oxford india anthology of Modern Urdu Literature | 891.43937 HAJ/M The monkey's wound & other stories |
A landmark Urdu classic translated for the first time 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. Superbly translated, The Paradise of Food is a novel like no other.
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