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The greatest Urdu stories ever told / selected & translated by Muhammad Umar Memon.

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Short stories, Urdu -- Translations into English.

9789383064076 (hc.)

xxv, 346 p. ; 23 cm.

Translated from the Urdu.

Obscure domains of fear and desire / Naiyer Masud -- The shepherd / Ashfaq Ahmad -- The shroud / Munshi Premchand -- Toba Tek Singh / Saadat Hasan Manto -- Laajwanti / Rajinder Singh Bedi -- Aanandi / Ghulam Abbas -- The saga of Jaanki Raman Pandey / Zakia Mashhadi -- Sunlight / Abdullah Hussein -- Of fists and rubs / Ismat Chughtai -- Sukhe saawan / Zamiruddin Ahmad -- Banished / Jamila Hashmi -- Beyond the fog / Qurratulain Hyder -- The Wagon / Khalida Asghar -- The back room / Intizar Husain -- Voices / Muhammad Salim-ur-Rahman -- Do you suppose it's the east wind? / Altaf Fatima -- Ma'i Dada-the man with three names / Asad Muhammad Khan -- The old mansion / Ikramullah -- Two old kippers / Siddiq Aalam -- Fable of a severed head / Sajid Rashid -- The pose / Anwer Khan -- The man / Syed Muhammad Ashraf -- A sheet / Salam Bin Razzaq -- The vultures of the Parsi cemetery / Ali Imam Naqvi -- The tree / Tassaduq Sohail.

"Selected and translated by writer, editor and translator par excellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the twenty-five stories in this book represent the finest short fiction in Urdu literature. In his Introduction, Memon traces the evolution of the Urdu short story from its origins in the work of writers like Munshi Premchand -- 'the first professional short story writer in Urdu' -- through the emergence of the Progressives in the late 1930s, whose writings were unabashedly political and underpinned their Marxist ideologies, to the post-Independence 'Modernist' era, and today's generation of avant-garde, experimental writers of Urdu fiction. Every story in the anthology illustrates one or the other facet of the form in the Urdu literary tradition. But even more than for their formal technique and inventiveness, these stories have been included because of their power and impact on the reader."--Publisher.

Urdu fiction -- Translations into English.

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