In This Is Where the Serpent Lives, Daniyal Mueenuddin traces how power is inherited and enforced in Pakistan
- Posted on February 4, 2026
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In This Is Where the Serpent Lives, Daniyal Mueenuddin traces how power is inherited and enforced in Pakistan

Through one lost boy in Rawalpindi, the author's spare, Chekhovian novel studies how lives are shaped by systems that never announce themselves.