The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789390652778)

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature, Manto published over twenty collections of short stories in a literary career spanning almost two decades. Several of these have been adapted into films and plays that have won a multitude of awards and his stories about the 1947 Partition remain some of the best accounts ever written on the catastrophic event. This book is the first of a three-volume series which will contain all of Saadat Hasan Manto's 255 known stories translated into English for the very first time. Volume I collects fifty-four stories and two essays written by Manto about his time in Bombay and Poona in colonial India. The anthology includes well-known stories like 'Mummy' and 'Janki', which provide rare insights into the Poona film industry; the fascinating story of 'Babu Gopinath'; and 'My Marriage' and 'My Sahib', two essays that read almost like stories. These meticulous translations by award-winning writer and translator Nasreen Rehman, distil the aura that Manto creates of a time, a place, and a moment

Author: Nasreen Rehman
ISBN-10: 9390652774
ISBN-13: 9789390652778
Publisher: Aleph
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2022
Pages: 562
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d