The Room Of Lost Things Summary

People simultaneously drop off their clothes and shed their secrets.

The room of lost things summary.

Throughout the shop you can find every and anything from mummified prairie dogs to fossils. But while he is the custodian of other people s secrets close lipped he guards his own until in revealing the room of lost things to akeel robert s own story slowly begins to unfold. In order to embrace the full multicultural diversity of london as well as its history since the violence of the second world war duffy has assembled an impressive cast of characters. It is also very much about londoners their lives dreams and struggles and how they mostly find ways to rub along together.

Like hanif kureishi s laundrette the room of lost things has an odd couple at its heart. Stephen lives alone following his wife s death and this death along with further personal losses compound his loneliness and despair. Robert s shop counter has something of the confessional about it. The artists and employees are friendly and knowledgeable.

The shopkeeper is white and vaguely sceptical of the muslim lifestyle practised by akeel. The room of lost things caters to the strange.