Other Names for Love

by Taymour Soomro

Book Overview

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.

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 family's feudal estate in upcountry, Pakistan. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family--to make him a man...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374604649
• ISBN13: 9780374604646
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.4"