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Introduction by Booker Prize-Winning Author Penelope Lively

The Lark

With an Introduction by Kamila Shamsie

Lifting the Veil

Meatless Days

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Extraordinary... as an evocation of family love, with all its sharpness, pain and need, Meatless Days is almost faultless

Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read

The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs

Dazzling... Suleri is a postcolonial Proust

Suleri writes with a surgical intellectual frankness... and a poetic precision which crisps the reader into paying absolute attention

A tour de force of memory and interpretation...What makes Meatless Days such an astonishing book is its corrosive effect on partitions of all kinds - between body and history, politics and poetry, language and experience, the East and the West.

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

An incredibly smart, dryly funny and hugely moving read

A bewitching memoir of loss... remarkable

Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the author's family two years apart, her personal crisis spirals into a wider meditation on universal questions: about being a woman when you're too busy being a mother or a sister or a wife to consider your own womanhood; about how it feels to begin life in a new language; about how our lives are changed by the people that leave them. This is a heart-breaking, hopeful and profound book that will get under your skin.

'Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read' Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction 
 
Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the author's family two years apart, her personal crisis spirals into a wider meditation on universal questions: about being a woman when you're too busy being a mother or a sister or a wife to consider your own womanhood; about how it feels to begin life in a new language; about how our lives are changed by the people that leave them. This is a heart-breaking, hopeful and profound book that will get under your skin. 
 
'Extraordinary... as an evocation of family love, with all its sharpness, pain and need, Meatless Days is almost faultless' New Statesman

Sara Suleri Goodyear, born Sara Suleri, is professor emeritus of English at Yale University. She is the author of Meatless Days, Boys Will Be Boys: A Daughter's Elegy and The Rhetoric of English India.

Meatless Days

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Extraordinary... as an evocation of family love, with all its sharpness, pain and need, Meatless Days is almost faultless

A jewel of insight and beauty

Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read

The author has a gift for rendering her family with a few, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs

Dazzling... Suleri is a postcolonial Proust

Suleri writes with a surgical intellectual frankness... and a poetic precision which crisps the reader into paying absolute attention

A tour de force of memory and interpretation...What makes Meatless Days such an astonishing book is its corrosive effect on partitions of all kinds - between body and history, politics and poetry, language and experience, the East and the West.

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

An incredibly smart, dryly funny and hugely moving read

A bewitching memoir of loss... remarkable

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