Other Names for Love

Other Names for Love
Taymour Soomro
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h234 x 153mm - 224pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
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9781787303058
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For readers of Damon Galgut, Brandon Taylor and J M Coetzee, an atmospheric story of love and violence in rural Pakistan from an exceptional new literary voiceOther Names for Love opens on a night train across the desert. Sixteen-year-old Fahad is travelling with his father Rafik to the family' s farmlands, tamed from the jungle and now the source of their wealth and power. Fahad doesn' t want to be there- he and the older man are not close; he is supposed to be in London with his mother, going to galleries and the theatre, and not to the end of the world. But when he falls in love with a boy from the next village, Fahad' s summer under duress becomes an experience that will shape the rest of his life. This is a brilliant, intense, often heart-rending novel exploring unspoken desire and its consequences for a family and for a society run for and by men. Masterfully compressed, almost hallucinatory in its atmosphere, it is about exile, return, and memory; and about what it means to be a father and a son.
A twenty-first century variation of Turgenev' s Fathers and Sons,Other Names for Love explores the age-old dilemma faced by all those whose childhood is defined, and whose future is decreed, by tradition: how to carve a space for one' s innermost self, how to love without turning oneself into love' s sacrifice, how to be courageous without losing one' s tenderness. A keen-eyed observer and a sensitive storyteller, Taymour Soomro is a thrilling new addition to international literature. -- Yiyun Li, author of WHERE REASONS END and MUST I GO This haunted, haunting novel is about the cruelties we commit in our search for freedom and the bonds from which we can never be free. Taymour Soomro' s piercing insight is that both the freedom and the bonds are constituent of love. -- Garth Greenwell, author of CLEANNESS and WHAT BELONGS TO YOU An exceptional novel about fathers and sons, desire and love, and the long reach of the past. It' s a relief to encounter writing this beautifully wrought, to enter a world this meticulously realised, and to read a novel so bold, so committed. -- Sunjeev Sahota, author of THE YEAR OF THE RUNAWAYS and CHINA ROOM A powerful, moving novel and am impressive debut. Soomro writes with both urgency and care. -- Mohsin Hamid, author of EXIT WEST Spell-binding, like a song overheard in the night, one you follow like a map to the singer. Other Names For Love feels both new and ancient, a transnational patriarchal puzzle made from legacies embraced and defied, and the love lost and found within. A masterful debut. -- Alexander Chee, author of QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
Taymour Soomro was born in 1979 in Lahore, Pakistan. He read law at Cambridge University and Stanford Law School. He has worked as a corporate solicitor in New York and Milan, a law lecturer at a university in Karachi, an agricultural estate manager in rural Pakistan and a publicist for a luxury fashion brand in London. Soomro has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and received the Curtis Brown Prize in 2016. He has written extensively for the Pakistani news media. His first published piece of creative writing, ' Philosophy of the Foot' , appeared in The New Yorker in January 2019. He has fiction forthcoming in Ninth Letter and The Southern Review. He lives in London.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781787303058
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 224

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