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Bombay stories / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad

By:

Manto, Saadat Hasan, , 1912-1955

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage International , 2014, c2012.Edition: First Vintage International EditionDescription: 288 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780804170604

Uniform titles:

Short stories . Selections . English

Subject(s):

Mumbai (India) -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

FIC MAN

LOC classification:

PK2199.H338 A6 2014

Contents:

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

Summary: This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		037154

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

This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.

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