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Selected and translated by writer, editor and translator par excellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the twenty-five stories in this book represent the finest short fiction in Urdu literature.
In his Introduction, Memon traces the evolution of the Urdu short story from its origins in the work of writers like Munshi Premchand-‘the first professional short story writer in Urdu’-through the emergence of the Progressives in the late 1930s, whose writings were ...
A malfunctioning weathervane forces the wind to realign itself. A collector travels all over the world tracking down tools used in crimes against corpses. A gardener frets over the consequences of stealing the Navab of Lucknow's prized myna. Minutiae and mystery form the warp and weft of Naiyer Masud's densely woven, enchantingly hypnotic stories, combining precisely delineated characters and objects with accounts of inexplicable phenomena and the arcane arts. ...
An active member of the progressive writers movement, Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi is probably one of the most admired Pakistani writers. A poet, journalist, literary critic and short story writer, he is a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature. The Resthouse is a collection of Urdu short stories depicting Qasimi’s deep roots in his culture and locale. The stories portray common men and women with their disappointments and gullibility, joys and sorrows, and bring ...
Readers and critics have compared the acclaimed Urdu writer Naiyer Masud to Kafka, Borges and Murakami. But it is best to speak of his style as pure Masud, for no other writer has rendered a fictional world quite like that of this master storyteller. His prose is spare and seductive and his stories have a shimmering, elusive quality. Although individually perfectly formed and complete, yet each story appears to have no beginning or end, drawing the reader into a ...