Böcker av Nasreen Rehman

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature, Manto published overtwenty collections of short stories in a literary career spanning almost two decades. Several of these have been adapted into filmsand plays that have won a multitude of awards and his stories about the 1947 Partition remain some of the best accounts everwritten on the catastrophic event.This book is the first of a three-volume series which will contain all of Saadat Hasan Manto's 255 known stories translated intoEnglish for the very first time. Volume I collects fifty-four stories and two essays written by Manto about his time in Bombay andPoona in colonial India. The anthology includes well-known stories like 'Mummy' and 'Janki', which provide rare insights intothe Poona film industry; the fascinating story of 'Babu Gopinath'; and 'My Marriage' and 'My Sahib', two essays that read almostlike stories. These meticulous translations by award-winning writer and translator Nasreen Rehman, distil the aura that Mantocreates of a time, a place, and a moment