Manto, Saadat Hasan , 1912-1955

Bombay stories / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad - First Vintage International Edition. - New York : Vintage International , 2014, c2012. - 288 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

9780804170604

2013046066


Mumbai (India)----Fiction

PK2199.H338 / A6 2014

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