title: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
text: # In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
  
  In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is a collection of short stories written by Pakistani-American author Daniyal Mueenuddin, who has also worked as a journalist, lawyer and a businessman. His book has won The Story Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other honors and was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and the 2009 National Book Award.
  
  ## Stories
  
  * "Nawabdin Electrician"
  * "Saleema"
  * "Provide, Provide"
  * "About a Burning Girl"
  * "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders"
  * "Our Lady of Paris"
  * "Lily"
  * "A Spoiled Man"
  
  ## Summary
  
  The stories uncovers a variegated society in which people's social status and expectations are understood without being explained, and in which the class system and poverty are shown to influence any decision made at a critical moment in the characters' lives. The book consists of eight linked stories written in Pakistan in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, and describe Pakistani culture from within.
  
  ## Reviews
  
  Sonny Mehta, editor-in-chief and chairman of Bertelsmann AG's Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, says;
  
     "The Pakistani writers are addressing change and what's happening today in the world. There is something completely contemporary in this writing."
  
  Poet and Writer Magazine writes;
  
     "Mueenuddin's book investigates life in his native Pakistan (he was also raised in Massachusetts) through the lenses of individuals in different stations, from an electrician to a woman servant to a farm manager, a position the author himself occupies today. He described himself as being in the profession of identifying characters, both in his writing and in his business at home."
  