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Bombay Stories (Paperback)
Saadat Hasan Manto; Translated by Matt Reeck, Aftab Ahmad; Introduction by Matt Reeck; Foreword by Mohammed Hanif
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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, Observer In 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.
A collection of classic, yet shockingly contemporary, short stories
set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay, from one of India's
greatest writers.
Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like
no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license
and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless
despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Manto is best
known as a master of the short story, and Bombay was his lifelong
muse. Vividly bringing to life the city's seedy underbelly--the
prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters that filled its streets--as well
as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame,
here are all of Manto's Bombay-based stories, together in English
for the very first time. By turns humorous and fantastical, Manto's
tales are the provocative and unflinching lives of those forgotten
by humanity.
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