The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told

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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 Premchandthe First Professional Short Story Writer In Urduthrough The Emergence Of The Progressivesin The Late 1930S, Whose Writings Were Unabashedly Political And Underpinned Their Marxist Ideologies, To The Post-Independence Modernist Era, And Todays 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. Death And Poverty Face Off In Premchands Masterpiece The Shroud. In Khalida Asghars The Wagon, A Mysterious Redness Begins To Cloak The Sunset In A Village By The Ravi. Behind Closed Doors And Cracks In The Windows Lies Desire But Also A Sense Of Queer Foreboding In Naiyer Masuds Obscure Domains Of Fear And Desire. The Tragedy And Horror Of Partition Are Brought To Life By Saadat Hasan Mantos Lunatic (In Toba Tek Singh) And The Eponymous Heroine Of Rajinder Singh Bedis Laajwanti. Despairing, Violent, Passionate, Humorous, Ironic And Profoundthe Fiction In The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told Will Imprint Itself Indelibly On Your Mind.

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