cover image Meatless Days

Meatless Days

Sara Suleri. University of Chicago Press, $14 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-226-77981-2

Suleri's memoir of postcolonial Pakistan focuses on language as a means to personal and cultural self-definition. ``In interpreting an intricate past so resourcefully, Suleri . . . expands the usual boundaries of autobiography to include philosophical, literary, historical and linguistic issues in an elegantly unified document,'' said PW. (June)