Meatless Days: Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie

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Sara Suleri

Meatless Days

Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie

Sara Suleri

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English

Penguin Books Ltd
15 February 2018

Autobiography: literary; Autobiography: religious & spiritual; Memoirs; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: post-colonial literature

Series: Penguin Women Writers

A masterly memoir of love, grief and longing in postcolonial Pakistan, with an introduction by Kamila Shamsie

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.

By: Sara Suleri
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 138g
ISBN: 9780241342466
ISBN 10: 0241342465
Series: Penguin Women Writers
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Meatless Days: Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie

Meatless Days was first published in 1989, when I was sixteen years old, and in all the years since I've struggled to find ways to adequately explain its singular brilliance to others. -- Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction 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 A jewel of insight and beauty * Los Angeles Times Book Review * Dazzling... Suleri is a postcolonial Proust * Voice Literary Supplement *