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Meatless days by Goodyear, Sara Suleri is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><p>In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious grandmother Dadi and five siblings; and of her own passage to the West.<p>"Nine autobiographical tales that move easily back and forth among Pakistan, Britain, and the United States. . . . She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply into the history of her family and friends. . . . The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing."—Daniel Wolfe, <i>New York Times Book Review</i><p>"A jewel of insight and beauty. . . . Suleri's voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes."—Rone Tempest, <i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i><p>"The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs."—Anita Desai, <i>Washington Post Book World</i><p>"<i>Meatless Days</i> takes the reader through a Third World that will surprise and confound him even as it recor
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- Author
- Goodyear, Sara Suleri
- Publisher
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226779812
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (318 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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