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Downfall by Degrees brings you three short stories and two novellas by Abdullah Hussein, recipient of the Adamjee Award, Pakistan's highest literary prize. Hussein holds a towering position in the world of Urdu fiction and his stories probe, with masterful precision and exquisite balance, the condition of the modern man at odds with himself. His microscopic eye is trained on the underside of pain in a language that is stark and telling. The characters of these ...