Other names for love : a novel / Taymour Soomro.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374604646
- Physical Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Subject: | Teenage boys > Pakistan > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Pakistan > Fiction. Summer > Fiction. Gay men > Fiction. Pakistan > Fiction. |
Genre: | Bildungsromans. |
Topic Heading: | LGBTQ+ |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Castlegar Public Library | FIC SOO (Text) | 35146002278802 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Sent to the familyâs rural estate in upcountry Pakistan, where his father hopes to make him a man, 16-year-old Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitantsâespecially a local boy with whom he falls in love, learning the consequences of desire. 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire"-- - McMillan Palgrave
A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boyâs life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire.
At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the familyâs feudal estate in upcountry, Pakistan. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, familyâto 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 Soomroâs Other Names for Love is a tale of masculinity, inheritance, and desire set against the backdrop of a countryâs troubled history, told with uncommon urgency and beauty.