This is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin #joyce ' The Spectator

' The Spectator

thoughtful and challenging' - Daily Telegraph 'A beautiful book' - Gabriel Byrne 'Beautiful and brilliant

Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen

But the more she immerses herself into his world

with two ribbons and lined pages

This is Where the Serpent Lives by Daniyal Mueenuddin #joyce ' The SpectatorA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST NEW DEBUT Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving: a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature. Moving from Pakistans sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station. Daniyal Mueenuddins This Is Where the Serpent Lives