Other Names for Love

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A beautiful novel on the desire to leave and the hope to remain, the need to find oneself among one's people and away from them An exceptional novel about fathers and sons, desire and love, and the long reach of the past Such a deftly told and evocative story of duty, masculinity and desire A twenty-first century variation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons... Taymour Soomro is a thrilling new addition to international literature This haunted, haunting novel is about the cruelties we commit in our search for freedom and the bonds from which we can never be free. Taymour Soomro's piercing insight is that both the freedom and the bonds are constituent of love A powerful, moving novel and an impressive debut Spell-binding, like a song overheard in the night, one you follow like a map to the singer. Other Names For Love feels both new and ancient... A masterful debut An elegant and affecting story about love... Other Names for Love probes the mystery of who we are by looking at the places (our homelands and wherever we flee to) and people (our parents and lovers) that forge us A compact book bursting with emotion, it leaves you eager for whatever this already vastly accomplished author will do next [Soomro's] insights - into class, power, masculinity, desire, shame and filial duty - are fresh and nuanced... [he] is thrillingly attuned to the hum and growl of his characters' moods... Other Names for Love announces an author of great promise Expand reviews