A review by harryr
Bombay Stories by Aftab Ahmad, Matt Reeck, Saadat Hasan Manto

3.0

Short stories set in Bombay in the 30s and 40s, which mainly seem to be about prostitutes and their various male customers. These didn’t quite click for me; apart from anything else I was sometimes unconvinced by his ability to put himself in the shoes of his female characters. Apparently Manto is better known for his stories about Partition; perhaps those would have been a better place to start.