Bombay Stories

Name: Bombay Stories
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780099582892
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By (author): Sa'adat Hasan Manto

Translated by: Aftab Ahmad, Matt Reeck

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.

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Weight: 234g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 27 Mar 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780099582892

About Sa'adat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto has been called the greatest short story writer of the Indian subcontinent. He was born in 1912 in Punjab and went on to become a radio and film-script writer journalist and short story writer. His stories were highly controversial and he was tried for obscenity six times during his career. After Partition Manto moved to Lahore with his wife and three daughters. He died there in 1955.