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Hero and other stories / Nadir Ali ; translated by Amna Ali and Moazzam Sheikh.
Van Pelt Library PK2659.A45 H476 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- ʻAlī, Nādir, 1936-2020, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Panjabi
- Subjects (All):
- Beauty, Personal--Fiction.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Love--Fiction.
- Love.
- Moral conditions--Fiction.
- Moral conditions.
- Human ecology--Fiction.
- Human ecology.
- Partition, Territorial, in literature--Fiction.
- Partition, Territorial, in literature.
- Forced migration--India--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Forced migration.
- Short stories, Panjabi--Translations into English.
- Short stories, Panjabi.
- India--History--Partition, 1947--Fiction.
- India.
- Pakistan--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Pakistan.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 87 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Hero & other stories
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Weavers Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- Translated from Panjabi.
- Summary:
- "Fourteen short stories chosen by the translators from Nadir Ali's three collections deal with his primary concerns: the partition of India, human desire for beauty and longing for intimacy, man's moral decline due to industrialization and modernity's corroding effect on nature, human relationships and values" -- https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Other-Stories-Nadir-Ali/dp/0984377662
- Contents:
- Baba Sheenah
- Twins
- Grapes
- Feeqa's death
- Hero
- Nooran Niari
- The Saint of the Sparrows
- Bala Flatulent
- Balwant Kaur
- The newspaper
- Qissa Shah Husain
- Mangta the Sarangi player
- Hussaina Qaachu
- Bandu, consoler of the rich.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780984377664
- 0984377662
- OCLC:
- 1337923121
- Publisher Number:
- 99991411444
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