Selected Stories (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Manto, Saadat Hasan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143102184 ISBN 13: 9780143102182

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2010

Synopsis

This collection brings together some of Manto's finest stories, ranging from his chilling recounting of the horrors of Partition to his portrayal of the underworld. Writing with great feeling and empathy about the fallen and the rejects of society, Manto the supreme humanist shows how the essential goodness of people does not die even in the face of unimaginable suffering. Powerful and deeply moving, these stories remain as relevant today as they were when they were first published more than half a century ago.

About this title

About the Author:

Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Samrala in Punjab's Ludhiana district. In a literary, journalistic, radio scripting and film-writing career spread over more than two decades, he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Some of Manto's greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. He died several months short of his forty-third birthday, in January 1955, in Lahore.

Synopsis:

Brings together some of Mantao's stories, raging from his chilling recounting of the horrors of partition to his portrayal of the underworld. This title writes about the fallen and the rejects of society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143102184
• ISBN 13: 9780143102182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352