{"product_id":"the-greatest-urdu-stories-ever-told","title":"The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected and translated by writer, editor and translator par\u003cbr\u003e\nexcellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the twenty-five stories in this book represent\u003cbr\u003e\nthe finest short fiction in Urdu literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eand\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his Introduction, Memon traces the evolution of the Urdu\u003cbr\u003e\nshort story from its origins in the work of writers like Munshi Premchand- the\u003cbr\u003e\nfirst professional short story writer in Urdu'-through the emergence of the\u003cbr\u003e\nProgressives in the late 1930s, whose writings were unabashedly political and\u003cbr\u003e\nunderpinned their Marxist ideologies, to the post-Independence  Modernist' era,\u003cbr\u003e\nand today's generation of avant-garde, experimental writers of Urdu fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eand\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery story in the anthology illustrates one or the other\u003cbr\u003e\nfacet of the form in the Urdu literary tradition. But even more than for their\u003cbr\u003e\nformal technique and inventiveness, these stories have been included because of\u003cbr\u003e\ntheir power and impact on the reader. Death and poverty face off in Premchand's\u003cbr\u003e\nmasterpiece  The Shroud'. In Khalida Asghar's  The Wagon', a mysterious redness\u003cbr\u003e\nbegins to cloak the sunset in a village by the Ravi. Behind closed doors and\u003cbr\u003e\ncracks in the windows lies desire but also  a sense of queer foreboding' in\u003cbr\u003e\nNaiyer Masud's  Obscure Domains of Fear and Desire'. The tragedy and horror of\u003cbr\u003e\nPartition are brought to life by Saadat Hasan Manto's lunatic (in  Toba Tek\u003cbr\u003e\nSingh') and the eponymous heroine of Rajinder Singh Bedi's  Laajwanti'.\u003cbr\u003e\nDespairing, violent, passionate, humorous, ironic and profound-the fiction in\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told will imprint itself indelibly on your mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muhammad Umar Memon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44218387562556,"sku":"9789383064076","price":2065.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9789383064076-9.jpg?v=1776764154","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-greatest-urdu-stories-ever-told","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}