Mottled Dawn

Mottled Dawn
Author: Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011
Genre: India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949
ISBN: 0143418319

Ice-Candy-Man

Ice-Candy-Man
Author: Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2000-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9351181197

Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.

Black Margins

Black Margins
Author: Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo
Publisher: Katha
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788187649403

Along with Manto s open letter to Nehru that reveals his state of mind after the Partition, this collection captures the best of Manto s literary powers. Part of the Pakistan Writers Series, which presents English translations of Urdu fiction from Pakistan, Black Margins encompasses the range of Manto s thematic and formalistic concerns.

Pakistan

Pakistan
Author: Anatol Lieven
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610391624

In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven's extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.

The Kitemaker

The Kitemaker
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2011-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9351187659

Ruskin Bond wrote his first short story, ‘Untouchable’, at the age of sixteen in 1950. Since then he has written over a hundred stories, including the classics ‘A Face in the Dark’, ‘The Kitemaker’, ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Time Stops at Shamli’. Two of his autobiographical works, ‘Life with Father’ and ‘My Father’s Last Letter’, are also included in this selection. Filled with characteristic warmth, gentle humour and keen observations on daily life, this collection brings together some of the fi nest short fiction by one of India’s best-loved authors.

Women of Prey (Shikari Auratein)

Women of Prey (Shikari Auratein)
Author: Saadat Hasan Manto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-10-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789389231342

'The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story.'--Salman Rushdie Originally published in 1955 as Shikari Auratein, Women of Prey is a hugely entertaining and forgotten classic containing raunchy, hilarious short stories and profiles that show a completely different side of Manto. As he's enjoying a kulfi in his Victoria coach after a long day at Filmistan, a beautiful burqa-clad woman suddenly hops in next to Manto, ready to go home. What will he do next? When Ashok stumbles across a porn film for the first time in his life, he is appalled. What will happen when his wife gets a hold of the contraband? Will two bitter lovers--about to give it all up--resolve their differences, before they take each other's lives? Can Ashok Kumar, heartthrob to millions of women, handle Paro Devi's affections? In addition to these stories, this volume also includes 'Sitara', Manto's scandalous profile of the legendary Kathak dancer, famous for her troop of lovers. Appearing in English translation for the first time ever, this gem of a collection is a gloriously pulpy, sexual, hilarious and tragic romp through Manto's Bombay, Lahore and Amritsar.