Lihaaf by Ismat Chugtai

Lihaaf

Ismat Chugtai

208 pages first pub 1267 (editions)

fiction feminism lgbtqia+ short stories reflective slow-paced
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Lihaaf ("The Quilt") is a Urdu short story written by Ismat Chughtai. Published in 1942, at the Urdu literary journal Adab-i-Latif, it led to much controversy, uproar and an obscenity trial in the Lahore Court. The narrator of this story, a precoc...

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