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Other Names for Love
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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At age 16, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family—to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping his presence will prove instructive.
Instead, over the course of one hot indolent season, attraction blooms between the two boys, and Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants: the people, who revere and revile his father in turn; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager and most of all, Ali, who threatens to unearth all that is hidden.
Decades later, Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him home. His return will force him to face the past. Taymour Soomro's Other Names for Love is a tale of masculinity, inheritance and desire set against the backdrop of a country's troubled history, told with uncommon urgency and beauty.
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- Zarm
- 20-04-23
Feudalism vs industrialism
Set in rural Punjab it tells the story of Fahad who is sent to UK to study and returna a stranger to his own country. His strained relationship with his parents and himself. I found the writing clumsy and the narrator's voice irritating
Which spoiled the narrative. The characters don't seem fully formed leaving the reader distanced from them and the story.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Hugh M. Clarke
- 07-07-23
Disappointing
Having read some reviews, I was looking forward to this book. However it has proved to be very disappointing. I had problems following the story and it seemed very confused. It was difficult to empathise with any of the characters. I think the reader did his best, but the material is hard to work with.
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