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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&#8212;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."&#8212;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."&#8212;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."&#8212;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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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

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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