Ismat Chughtai: 2 books
by Ismat Chughtai
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The four novellas in this volume span the inimitable Ismat Chughtai’s literary career, from 1939 to 1971. Each one develops the author’s central preoccupation with the lives of women as they experience love, tragedy, societal prescriptions and proscriptions, in collision with their own rebellious...
by Ismat Chughtai, Tahira Naqvi
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A young Indian woman searches for her own identity as her country fights for independence in this novel from the award-winning Urdu Indian author.
*The Crooked Line *is the story of Shamman, a spirited young woman who rebels against the traditional Indian life of purdah, or female seclusion, that...