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Bombay stories / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad.
Van Pelt Library PK2199.H338 A6 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan, 1912-1955.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Urdu
- Subjects (All):
- Mumbai (India)--Fiction.
- Mumbai (India).
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage International Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International/Vintage Books, 2014.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Khushiya
- Ten rupees
- Barren
- The insult
- Smell
- Babu Gopi North
- Janaki
- Peerun
- Rude
- Hamid's baby
- Mummy
- Siraj
- Mozelle
- Mammad Bhai.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780804170604
- 0804170606
- OCLC:
- 854613877
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