The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told

Selected and translated by writer, editor and translator par excellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the twenty-five stories in this book represent the finest short fiction in Urduiterature.In his Introdu ...

Selected and translated by writer, editor and translator par excellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the twenty-five stories in this book represent the finest short fiction in Urduiterature.In his Introduction, Memon traces the evolution of the Urdu short story from its origins in the work of writersike Munshi Premchand”"the first professional short story writer in Urdu''”through the emergence of the Progressivesin theate 1930s, whose writings were unabashedly political and underpinned their Marxist ideologies, to the post-Independence "Modernist'' era, and today''s generation of avant-garde, experime