{"product_id":"up-in-the-main-house-other-stories-9781944700980","title":"Up in the Main House \u0026 Other Stories","description":"Up in the main house, servants have worked for decades watching the city rise around it, feeling like part of the family but knowing they aren't. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNadeem Zaman's new collection of eight stories set in contemporary Dhaka explore the inner lives of the cooks and butlers, nightwatchmen and peons - people who have spent decades working for the same family, in the same house. Arranged marriages are negotiated, favors asked, the social cues a subtle dance. The daily itineraries must run like clockwork for the rich and well off who have their own problems, but in Nadeem's stories they appear thin and forever insecure, a byproduct of the real lives being lived around them. There are digressions, too, big ones like the interlopers and prowlers, petty thieves, and calculated con men, and small ones, like the servant woman who locks herself in the master bedroom while the family is away and the night guard who wonders, if there is always \u003ci\u003ethe family\u003c\/i\u003e, does he have one of his own? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeautifully compelling and quietly powerful, Zaman's stories capture an old way of life and ask what's next?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unnamed Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944700980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nadeem Zaman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672002621596,"sku":"9781944700980","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_393a2b44-df12-4c58-85bf-f1b833d51939.jpg?v=1603926733","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/up-in-the-main-house-other-stories-9781944700980","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}