THE GREATEST KASHMIRI STORIES EVER TOLD (HB)

?The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told
spans almost a century of work by some of the finest writers of short fiction
in the language. The storytellers included here range from the earliest
practitioners of the craft of short story writing?Dinanath Nadim, Somnath
Zutshi, Ali Mohammad Lone?to more contemporary writers like Dheeba Nazir.
Some stories in this collection are realistic dramas that hold up a
startlingly clear mirror to society, such as Sofi Ghulam Mohammad?s ?Paper
Tigers?, or lay bare the pain of losing one?s homeland, as Rattan Lal Shant
does in ?Moss Floating on Water?. Then there are others like Ghulam Nabi
Shakir?s ?Unquenched Thirst? and Umesh Kaul?s ?The Heart?s Bondage?, that
look beyond the exterior and focus on the complex inner lives of the women of
Kashmir. Selected and translated by Neerja Mattoo, the twenty-five stories in
this volume, all born out of the Kashmiri experience, will resonate with
readers everywhere.