Selected stories / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated from the Urdu with an introduction by Khalid Hasan.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Urdu Series: Modern classics | Modern classicsPublisher: New Delhi ; New York : Penguin Books, 2007Description: xiv, 309 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780143102182 (paperback)
- Short stories. Selections. English
- 23 891.4393 MAN 012284
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 891.4393 MAN 012284 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 012284 |
Introduction
A wet afternoon
Toba Tek Singh
Colder than ice
The assignment
Mozail
The return
A woman's life
Odour
Kingdom's end
Upstairs downstairs
A man of God
The gift
The room with the bright light
Siraj
The wild cactus
It happened in 1919
The woman in the red raincoat
The dog of Titwal
The last salute
The new constitution
Khushia
Babu Gopi Nath
Mummy
The patch
The blouse
On the balcony
Two-nation theory
The price of freedom.
This collection brings together some of Manto's finest stories, ranging from his chilling recounting of the horrors of Partition to his portrayal of the underworld. Writing with great feeling and empathy about the fallen and the rejects of society, Manto the supreme humanist shows how the essential goodness of people does not die even in the face of unimaginable suffering. Powerful and deeply moving, these stories remain as relevant today as they were when they were first published more than half a century ago.
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