The Collected Stories Of Saadat Hasan Manto Volume 1: Poona And Bombay

Saadat Hasan Manto 1912–1955 Needs No Introduction. One Of The Greatest Stars Of Urdu Literature, Manto Published Over Twenty Collections Of Short Stories In A Literary Career Spanning Almost Two Decades. Several Of These Have Been Adapted Into Films And Plays That Have Won A Multitude Of Awards And His Stories About The 1947 Partition Remain Some Of The Best Accounts Ever Written 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 Into English For The Very First Time. Volume I Collects Fifty-Four Stories And Two Essays Written By Manto About His Time In Bombay And Poona In Colonial India. The Anthology Includes Well-Known Stories Like ‘Mummy’ And ‘Janki’, Which Provide Rare Insights Into The Poona Film Industry; The Fascinating Story Of ‘Babu Gopinath’; And ‘My Marriage’ And ‘My Sahib’, Two Essays That Read Almost Like Stories. These Meticulous Translations By Award-Winning Writer And Translator Nasreen Rehman, Distil The Aura That Manto Creates Of A Time, A Place, And A Moment.