Daniyal Mueenuddin: This Is Where the Serpent Lives, Gebunden
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
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- Verlag:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 01/2026
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780525655152
- Artikelnummer:
- 12270476
- Umfang:
- 352 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 553 g
- Maße:
- 235 x 156 mm
- Stärke:
- 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 13.1.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"Moving from Pakistan's sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station. Daniyal Mueenuddin's This is Where the Serpent Lives paints a powerful portrait of contemporary feudal Pakistan, and a farm on which the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters are linked through violence and love, resilience, and tragedy. From Afra, who rose from abject poverty to the role of trusted servant to an affluent gangster, to Saqib, an errand boy who is eventually trusted to lead his boss's new farming venture, where he becomes determined to rise above his rank by any means necessary. Saqib's boss, the wealthy landowner Hisham, reminisces about meeting his wife while she was dating his brother, while Gazala, a young teacher, falls for Saqib and his bold promises for their future before learning about his plans to skim money from the farm's profits. In matters of both business and the heart, Mueenuddin's characters struggle to choose between the paths that are moral and the paths that will allow them to survive the systems of caste, capital, and social power that so tightly grip their country. Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving, Mueenuddin's This is Where the Serpent Lives is a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature"--
Biografie
Daniyal Mueenuddin graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. After winning a Fulbright scholarship to study in Norway, he practiced law in New York before returning to Pakistan to manage the family farm. He divides his time between Cairo and Pakistan.