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Moving from the elegant drawing rooms of Lahore to the mud villages of rural
Multan, apowerful collection of short stories about feudal Pakistan.An
impoverished young woman becomes a wealthy relative's mistress; an electrician
on the make confronts his desperate assailant to protect his most prized
possession; a farm manager rises far in the world—but his family discovers after
his death the transience of power; a maid who advances herself through sexual
favours, unexpectedly falls in love. In these linked stories about the family
and household staff of the ageing KK Harouni, we meet masters and servants,
landlords and supplicants, politicians and electricians, village women and
Karachi housewives.Part Chekhov,
Moving from the elegant drawing rooms of Lahore to the mud villages of rural
Multan, apowerful collection of short stories about feudal Pakistan.An
impoverished young woman becomes a wealthy relative's mistress; an electrician
on the make confronts his desperate assailant to protect his most prized
possession; a farm manager rises far in the world—but his family discovers after
his death the transience of power; a maid who advances herself through sexual
favours, unexpectedly falls in love. In these linked stories about the family
and household staff of the ageing KK Harouni, we meet masters and servants,
landlords and supplicants, politicians and electricians, village women and
Karachi housewives.Part Chekhov,