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
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.