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The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide - The Lawrence Stone Lectures Ayesha Jalal
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The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide - The Lawrence Stone Lectures
Ayesha Jalal
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, an
288 pages, 26 halftones.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 24, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691153629 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 149 × 216 × 25 mm · 517 g |
| Language | English |
