{"product_id":"belles-lettres","title":"Belles-Lettres","description":"This work is a translation of Hijab Imtiaz Ali's work 'Adab-e-Zareen' (1936) that contains 47 pieces of short writings that, although Ali herself categorized as short stories, are more in the nature of prose-poems that dwell on metaphysical themes of life, death, and the nature of existence. The pieces in the work are interlinked through similar strands like an exaltation of nature, a strong sense of time, and a Muslim woman writer's delineations on the act of writing, the need for isolation and solace. The non-linear, fragmentary form of this work is very different from what Ali's contemporaries were writing, and suggests that she was at the forefront of Urdu modernist literature.","brand":"OUP India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224094527832,"sku":"9780190132644","price":63.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780190132644__67b987ea2c1a6.jpg?v=1741161093","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/belles-lettres","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}