{"product_id":"other-names-for-love-9781250872883","title":"Other Names for Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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 family's rural estate in up-country Pakistan. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family--to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping Ali's presence will prove instructive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInstead, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDecades later, Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him back to Abad. His return will force him to face the past. Taymour Soomro's \u003ci\u003eOther Names for Love\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of masculinity, inheritance, and longing, set against the backdrop of a country's troubled history, told with uncommon urgency and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaymour Soomro\u003c\/b\u003e is a British Pakistani writer. He studied law at Cambridge University and Stanford Law School. He has worked as a corporate solicitor in London and Milan, a lecturer at a university in Karachi, an agricultural estate manager in rural Sindh, and a publicist for a luxury fashion brand in London. His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published a textbook on law with Oxford University Press; has written extensively for the Pakistani news media; and is the coeditor, with Deepa Anappara, of a creative writing handbook on fiction, race, and culture. \u003ci\u003eOther Names for Love\u003c\/i\u003e is his debut novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724902142226,"sku":"9781250872883","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eda31dac-6a96-4fef-9744-9ce70b17a1e4.jpg?v=1734813496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/other-names-for-love-9781250872883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}