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As Soomro moves his characters from urban Karachi to rural Abad to the faraway escape of London Todiwala consistently and attentively distinguishes the changing cast with practiced ease Booklist

A charged hypnotic debut novel about a boys lifechanging 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 familys feudal estate in upcountry Pakistan Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy to teach him about power duty familyto make him a man He enlists Ali a local teenager in this project hoping his presence will prove instructive

Instead 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

Decades later Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him home His return will force him to face the past Taymour Soomros Other Names for Love is a tale of masculinity inheritance and desire set against the backdrop of a countrys troubled history told with uncommon urgency and beauty

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar Straus amp Giroux