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Bombay Stories

Bombay Stories

Manto, Saadat Hasan

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0804170606
ISBN13: 9780804170604
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Mar 25 2014
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.12
Language: English
A collection of classic, yet shockingly contemporary, short stories set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay, from one of India's greatest writers.

Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Manto is best known as a master of the short story, and Bombay was his lifelong muse. Vividly bringing to life the city's seedy underbelly--the prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters that filled its streets--as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame, here are all of Manto's Bombay-based stories, together in English for the very first time. By turns humorous and fantastical, Manto's tales are the provocative and unflinching lives of those forgotten by humanity.

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