Daniyal Mueenuddin's "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders"

Finished reading Daniyal Mueenuddin's "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders". It's a great read and beautifully written. It's a collection of short stories, all surrounding a central character of K. K. Harouni, a landlord and a businessman. Almost all the short stories offer different shades of life, mostly in the skin of a woman. And these shades, when put together, certainly offer a complete palette of emotions and characteristics a human being can possibly exhibit, again focusing mostly on women in a contemporary Pakistan. His stories also reveal many purposes and reasons for love. Love for conformity, love for survival, love for passion, love for lack of other excitement, love for an abundance of unwanted solitude, love for desire to rise above one's status. All perfectly valid reasons for love, though hardly admitted in favour of romanticism.

If anyone else has read this book, I would like to hear what they thought. Also, I couldn't figure out how the story Lily was associated to K. K. Harouni. It seems a bit odd that only this one story won't have any mention of what otherwise seems like a joining character. Anyone?

And what the hell is that on the cover? It's a human figure obviously, but what exactly is it? The picture within resembles a mughal character, but the outline seems like ... someone mid-air with a basketball!?