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Selected Stories

by Saadat Hasan Manto

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Selected Stories Overview

The most widely read and the most translated writer in Urdu, Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-55) is also the most controversial, he was tried for obscenity no less than six times, both before and after the departure of the British from India in 1947. Not always was he acquitted. In a Writing Career spanning over two decades, Manto, one of Urdu’s great stylists, produced a powerful and original body of work including short stories, a novel, Radio plays, Essays and Film scripts. This Selected Stories 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. Khalid Hasan’s brilliant translation succeeds in capturing the intensity of Manto’s prose, the author’s Sense of humour, no less than his razor-sharp vision.

 

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 Writing Career spanning over two decades, he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of Radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of Reminiscences and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Not always was he acquitted. 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.

 

 

 

 

 

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