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050 0 0 _aPK2199.H338
_bA6 2014
082 0 0 _aFIC MAN
100 1 _aManto, Saadat Hasan
_d, 1912-1955
240 1 0 _aShort stories
_k. Selections
_l. English
245 1 0 _aBombay stories
_c/ Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad
250 _aFirst Vintage International Edition.
260 _aNew York
_b: Vintage International
_c, 2014, c2012.
300 _a288 pages
_c; 21 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aKhushiya -- Ten rupees -- Barren -- The insult -- Smell -- Babu Gopi North -- Janaki -- Peerun -- Rude -- Hamid's baby -- Mummy -- Siraj -- Mozelle -- Mammad Bhai.
520 _aThis 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.
651 0 _aMumbai (India)
_v--Fiction
700 1 _aReeck, Matt
_c, Translator
700 1 _aAhmad, Aftab
_c, Translator
942 _cMO
999 _c272820
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