Sara Suleri Goodyear. Asian Studies: South Asia. Biography and Letters. Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists! Sign up here for updates about the Press. Buy this book : Boys Will Be Boys. In Boys Will Be Boys , she returns—with the same treasury of language, humor, and passion—to her childhood and early adulthood to pay tribute to her father, the political journalist Z.
Suleri known as Pip, for his "patriotic and preposterous" disposition. In this rich portrait, Pip emerges as a prodigious figure: an ardent agitator against British rule in the s and s, a founder of the Times of Karachi and the Evening Times , on-and-off editor of the Pakistan Times , for a brief time director of the Pakistan military intelligence service, and a frequently jailed antagonist of successive Pakistani leaders.
To the author, though, he was also "preposterous. Suleri Goodyear invites the reader into an intimacy shaped equally by history and intensely personal detail, creating an elegant elegy for a man of force and contradiction. Meatless Days has a singular position in the South Asian canon.
Boys Will Be Boys , echoing it after a wait of fifteen years, is, if anything, better still. The author has the rare ability to knit together moments of such absolute sadness, with vivid, light-hearted memories of those she has loved and lost. Suleri remains a skilled miniaturist.
She can compress entire worlds into a few brief sentences, filling in the tiny details, but never losing sight of the balance and structure of the whole. This is a thoroughly satisfying read. Back to top. Table of Contents. There is a wilderness within the wilderness My golden town, Kasur!
