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Bombay stories [electronic resource] / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad.

by Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955.

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New York : Vintage Books, 2014.

Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.

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9780804170611 (electronic bk.)

0804170614 (electronic bk.)

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First Vintage International edition.

Khushiya -- Ten rupees -- Barren -- The insult -- Smell -- Babu Gopi North -- Janaki -- Peerun -- Rude -- Hamid's baby -- Mummy -- Siraj -- Mozelle -- Mammad Bhai.

A collection of classic, yet shockingly contemporary, short stories set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay, from one of India's greatest writers. Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Manto is best known as a master of the short story, and Bombay was his lifelong muse. Vividly bringing to life the city's seedy underbelly'the prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters that filled its streets'as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame, here are all of Manto's Bombay-based stories, together in English for the very first time. By turns humorous and fantastical, Manto's tales are the provocative and unflinching lives of those forgotten by humanity.

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