EAN: 9781953861009

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[Manto s] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable idiomatic translations have all the agile swiftness and understated poignancy that parallel suggests. ---Boyd Tonkin Wall Street Journal Stories from the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story encircling the marginalized forgotten lives of Bombay set against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan Partition (Salman Rushdie) By far the most comprehensive collection of stories by this 20th Century master available in English. A master of the short story Saadat Hasan Manto opens a window onto Bombay s demimonde its prostitutes rickshaw drivers artists and strays as well probing the pain and bewilderment of the Hindus Muslims and Sikhs ripped apart by the India-Pakistan Partition. Manto is best known for his dry-eyed examination of the violence horrors and reverberations from the Partition. From a stray dog caught in the crossfire at the fresh border of India and Pakistan to friendly neighbors turned enemy soldiers pausing for tea together in a momentary cease fire Manto shines incandescent light into hidden corners with an unflinching gaze and a fierce humanism. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Vijay Seshadri these stories are essential reading for our current moment where divisiveness is erupting into violence in so many parts of the world.

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