Other Names for Love
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
- Publisher RANDOM HOUSE UK
- ISBN13 9781787303058
- ISBN10 1787303055
- Type Book
- Collection INGLES
- Published 2022
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Other Names for Love
Editorial RANDOM HOUSE UK
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Book Details
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 voice
Other 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.
- Publisher RANDOM HOUSE UK
- ISBN13 9781787303058
- ISBN10 1787303055
- Type Book
- Collection INGLES
- Published 2022
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback