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A review by rsyngh
Manto: Selected Stories by Aatish Taseer, Saadat Hasan Manto
3.0
I had quite some expectations for this book as the back cover of the book lauds him as the forgotten but greatest short story writer of the Indian subcontinent.
The book did (almost) deliver that promise as the stories were precise i.e. captured the essence of what he wanted to be conveyed in the exact amount .
Manto was not concerned with giving a 'moral of the story' or a happy ending just for the sake of it.
But I did feel something to be missing in these stories. Its hard to pinpoint what but there was something not there .Maybe its my immaturity or maybe future rereads will give me that missing thing . So when I was done with the book , there was a sense of something lacking in reading it.
The book did (almost) deliver that promise as the stories were precise i.e. captured the essence of what he wanted to be conveyed in the exact amount .
Manto was not concerned with giving a 'moral of the story' or a happy ending just for the sake of it.
But I did feel something to be missing in these stories. Its hard to pinpoint what but there was something not there .Maybe its my immaturity or maybe future rereads will give me that missing thing . So when I was done with the book , there was a sense of something lacking in reading it.