THE COLLECTED STORIES OF SAADAT HASAN MANTO

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.