Abdullah Hussein: 2 books
by Abdullah Hussein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What I am interested in, says Abdullah Hussein, is how people survive. How they invent ways and means of dealing with their situation in given circumstances and what happens to them in the course of it, how they stand of fall. All writers, I believe, are interested in modes of survival.This collection...
by Abdullah Hussein
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Published ahead of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet and long before Midnight’s Children, Abdullah Hussein’s ambitious saga of social struggle The Weary Generations was a bestseller in Urdu. Published in 1963 and now beyond its 40th edition, it has never been out of print. A vivid depiction of the widespread...