Lifting The Veil - Softcover

Chughtai Ismat; Asaduddin M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143066455 ISBN 13: 9780143066453

Publisher: Penguin Books (India), 2009

Synopsis

At a time when writing by and about women was rare and tentative, Chughtai explored female sexuality with unparalleled frankness and examined the political and social mores of her time. She wrote about the world that she knew, bringing the idiom of the middle class to Urdu prose, and totally transformed the complexion of Urdu fiction. Lifting the Veil brings together Ismat Chughtai s fiction and non-fiction writing. The twenty-one pieces in this selection are Chughtai at her best, marked by her brilliant turn of phrase, scintillating dialogue and wry humour, her characteristic irreverence, wit and eye for detail.

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Review:

Reading this book was a whole new experience. will be looking up for all her works. a great read. the stories left me wanting more.. --shreya thapa Apr 2, 2015

Best of all the extra ordinary tales ,crafted by the absolutely veracious world view of an author born much ahead of her time. Loved it wholeheartedly. --By Sneha Roy on 13 November 2014

From the Back Cover:

THE PENGUIN WOMEN WRITERS SERIES CELEBRATES THE CENTENARY OF WOMEN GETTING THE VOTE IN BRITAIN IN 1918.

'Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern' Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction

Lifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories celebrate life in all its complexities: from a woman who refuses marriage to a man she loves to preserve her freedom, to a Hindu and a Muslim teenager pulled apart by societal pressures, to eye-opening personal accounts of the charges of obscenity the author faced in court for stories found in this book.

Wickedly funny and unflinchingly honest, Lifting the Veil explores the power of female sexuality while slyly mocking the subtle tyrannies of middle-class life. In 1940s India, an unlikely setting for female rebellion, Ismat Chughtai was a rare and radical storyteller born years ahead of her time.

'Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives' Huffington Post
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books (India)
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0143066455
• ISBN 13: 9780143066453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288