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Bombay Stories

Manto, Saadat HasanHanif, Mohammed(Foreword by)Reeck, Matt (Translator)(Introduction by)Ahmad, Aftab(Translated by)Reeck, Matt (Translator)(Translated by)
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A rebellious yet human portrait of India's bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto. 'The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story' Salman Rushdie, ObserverIn the 1930s and 40s, Bombay was the cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent - an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless degradation.

It was also muse to the celebrated short story writer of India and Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto.

Manto's hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative.

In searching out those forgotten by humanity - prostitutes, conmen and crooks - Manto wrote about what it means to be human.

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Product Details
Vintage Classics
0099582899 / 9780099582892
Paperback / softback
27/03/2014
United Kingdom
English
General
208 pages
20 cm
Translated from the Urdu.