Bombay stories / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Vintage International , 2014, c2012.Edition: First Vintage International EditionDescription: 288 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780804170604
- Short stories . Selections . English
- FIC MAN
- PK2199.H338 A6 2014
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction / Ficción | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles | General | FIC MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 037154 |
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.
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