Bombay Stories

AvSaadat Hasan Manto

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Engelska, 2014

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-03-27
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448162369
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
Översättare:Matt Reeck, Aftab Ahmad
Medarbetare:Mohammed Hanif

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Saadat Hasan Manto has been called the greatest short story writer of the Indian subcontinent. He was born in 1912 in Punjab and went on to become a radio and film-script writer, journalist, and short story writer. His stories were highly controversial and he was tried for obscenity six times during his career. After Partition, Manto moved to Lahore with his wife and three daughters. He died there in 1955.

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"Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad's inspired new translations reaffirm the timelessness of Manto's prose and revitalize it for a new generation of English-language readers." Times Literary Supplement "The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story" -- Salman Rushdie Observer "Manto's irony and humanity raises him on par with Gogol" -- Anita Desai Spectator "The seer of Pakistan" New Yorker "One of the most gifted short-story writers produced by the sub-continent" Guardian