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Saadat Hasan Mantos first collection of stories was published in
the 1940s, but his stories have an enduring relevance. Now read by
more people than ever before, the simple clarity of his stories
about marginalized people, his astute understanding of the
complexity of human nature and the poignancy of his stories on
Partition transcend spatial and temporal boundaries many of his
characters are legendary and his taut narratives are a great source
of insight into the human condition. Widely regarded as one of the
greatest short-story writers of the Subcontinent, Manto is now, a
hundred years after his birth, also acknowledged as one of the most
powerful voices of his time. An enigma in his lifetime, and plagued
by financial troubles, alcoholism and legal persecution in the last
years of his life, he draws a posthumous wave of near-universal
admiration. Aatish Taseers sensitive translation captures the
lyricism and power of Mantos voice. Manto: Selected Stories, with
two new stories, is a collection to be savoured by new readers and
old fans of Manto alike.
As a child, all Aatish Taseer ever had of his father was his
photograph in a browning silver frame. Raised by his Sikh mother in
Delhi, his father, a Pakistani Muslim, remained a distant figure.
It was a fractured upbringing which left Aatish with many questions
about his own identity. Stranger to History is the story of the
journey Aatish made to try to understand what it means to be Muslim
in the twenty-first century. Starting from Istanbul, Islam's once
greatest city, he travels to Mecca, its most holy, and then home
through Iran and Pakistan. Ending in Lahore, at his estranged
father's home, on the night Benazir Bhutto was killed, it is also
the story of Aatish's own divided family over the past fifty years.
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Set over twenty years of convulsive change, Noon is the story of
Rehan Tabassum, a young man whose heart is split across two
cultures' troubled divide. Throughout his young life, Rehan has
been aware of his father's absence. The journey to find him is long
and difficult, from the glitter of his mother's New Delhi to the
Pakistan of her former lover, the man Rehan has never known.
Through lands of sudden wealth and hidden violence, in a toxic
atmosphere of blackmail and moral danger, he travels towards the
centre of a dark and shifting world. But his imagined destination
is simply another beginning . . . 'As the political and personal
undergo seismic shifts, Taseer grapples with new ways of telling
stories. In both form and content, he conveys with great acuity
what happens when the ground beneath our feet is shaken to its
core' Independent 'An engrossing and gifted writer' GQ 'Imbued with
a feel of latent menace, Noon explores a morally unedifying world
of power, corruption, violence and complicity' Guardian 'Gripping'
Sunday Times
When Skanda's father Toby dies, estranged from Skanda's mother and
from the India he once loved, it falls to Skanda to return his body
to his birthplace. This is a journey that takes him halfway around
the world and deep within three generations of his family, whose
fractures, frailties and toxic legacies he has always sought to
elude. Both an intimate portrait of a marriage and its aftershocks,
and a panoramic vision of India's half-century - in which a
rapacious new energy supplants an ineffectual elite - The Way
Things Were is an epic novel about the pressures of history upon
the present moment. It is also a meditation on the stories we tell
and the stories we forget; their tenderness and violence in forging
bonds and in breaking them apart. Set in modern Delhi and at
flashpoints from the past four decades, fusing private and
political, classical and contemporary to thrilling effect, this
book confirms Aatish Taseer as one of the most arresting voices of
his generation.
When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of
Hinduism, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian
journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the
intellectual and cultural elite of New Delhi. Nearly two decades
later, Taseer leaves his life in Manhattan to go in search of the
Brahmins, wanting to understand his own estrangement from India
through their ties to tradition. Known as the twice-born--first
into the flesh, and again when initiated into their vocation--the
Brahmins are a caste devoted to sacred learning. But what Taseer
finds in Benares is a window on an India as internally fractured as
his own continent-bridging identity. At every turn, the seductive,
homogenizing force of modernity collides with the insistent
presence of the past. In a globalized world, to be modern is to
renounce India--and yet the tide of nationalism is rising, heralded
by cries of 'Victory to Mother India!' and an outbreak of
anti-Muslim violence. From the narrow streets of the temple town to
a Modi rally in Delhi, among the blossoming cotton trees and the
bathers and burning corpses of the Ganges, Taseer struggles to
reconcile magic with reason, faith in tradition with hope for the
future and the brutalities of the caste system, all the while
challenging his own myths about himself, his past, and his
countries old and new.
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Rehan Tabassum has grown up in a world of privilege in Delhi. His
mother and her new husband embody the dazzling emergent India
everyone is talking about. His real father, however, is a virtual
stranger to him: a Pakistani Muslim who lives across the border and
owns a vast telecommunications empire called Qasimic Call.
As Rehan contemplates his future, he finds himself becoming
unmoored. Leaving the familiarity of home for Pakistan in an
attempt to get closer to his father, he is drawn into events he
barely understands. His half brother, Isffy, is being blackmailed;
his powerful father's entourage is tearing itself apart; and the
city of Port Bin Qasim, where he finds himself, is filled with
rioting protestors. Moral danger lurks in every corner of this
dark, shifting, and unfamiliar world.
Set against the background of a turbulent Pakistan and a rapidly
changing India, "Noon "is a startling and powerfully charged novel
from a brilliant young writer. Aatish Taseer bears witness to some
of the most urgent questions of our times, questions about
nationhood and violence, family and identity.
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