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Daniyal Mueenuddin

Daniyal Mueenuddin is the author of the story collection “ In Other Rooms, Other Wonders .” His second book is “ This Is Where the Serpent Lives .”

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“The Golden Boy”
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Fiction by Daniyal Mueenuddin, the author of “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” and “This Is Where the Serpent Lives”: Bayazid had never quite given up the fantasy he nurtured in boyhood, of discovering himself a child of some minister or prince.