Saadat Hasan Manto,Matt Reeck,Aftab Ahmad
Bombay in the 1930s and 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the Subcontinent. ,Bombay Stories, is a collection of Mantoâ€™s work from his years in the city. Freshly arrived in 1930s Mumbai, Manto saw a city like no otherâ€”an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, and a city bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. It was to be Mantoâ€™s favourite city, and he was among the first to write the Bombay characters we are now familiar with from countless stories and filmsâ€”prostitutes, pimps, lowlifes, writers, intellectuals, aspiring film actors, thugs, conmen and crooks. His hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative--in searching out those forgotten by humanity, Manto wrote about what it means to be human. Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmadâ€™s translations reach into the streets and capture in contemporary, idiomatic English the feeling that Urduâ€™s most celebrated short-story writerâ€™s work stories provide in the original.
Short Stories,Fiction,Cultural,India,Asian Literature,Indian Literature,Literature,Classics,Cultural,Pakistan,Cultural,Cultural,Asia,Literary Fiction
Bombay Stories