The Pity of Partition: Manto S Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide by Ayesha Jalal

The Pity of Partition: Manto S Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide

Ayesha Jalal

288 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writers Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India'...

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