Must-Read Urdu Literature in English
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The Weary Generations
Abdullah Hussein
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Published in 1963, before Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Abdullah Hussein’s...
Peer e Kamil (English)
Umera Ahmed
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Peer-e-Kamil (The Perfect Mentor) by Umera Ahmed is a captivating novel that explores the depths...
A Promised Land
Khadija Mastur (Author), Daisy Rockwell (Translator)
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In the wake of the Partition, a new country is born. As millions of refugees...
The Crooked Line
ISMAT CHUGHTAI
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This masterpiece by one of India’s foremost woman writers is also one of the most...
The Women’s Courtyard
Khadija Mastur (Author), Daisy Rockwell (Translator)
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Aliya lives a life confined to the inner courtyard of her home with her older...
The Quilt: Stories
Ismat ; Asaduddin (Tr.) Chugtai
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The Quilt: Stories is a collection of liberating short stories that feature women. This collection...
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF SAADAT HASAN MANTO
Nasreen Rehman
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Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature,...
A Life in Words: Memoirs
Ismat Chugtai (Author), Asaduddin (Translator)
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A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtai's celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai...
Manto: Selected Short Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto (Author), Aatish Taseer (Translator)
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Saadat Hasan Manto's first collection of stories was published in the 1940s, but his stories...
Manto: Selected Stories
Manto Saadat Hasan
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Saadat Hasan Manto's first collection of stories was published in the 1940s, but his stories...
Mottled Dawn
saadat hasan manto
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Mottled Dawn by manto
THE GREATEST URDU STORIES EVER TOLD
Muhammad Umar Memon
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Selected and translated by writer, editor and translator par excellence Muhammad Umar Memon, the twenty-five...
UNBOUND - 2000 YEARS OF INDIAN WOMENS WRITING
Annie Zaidi
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Profound, exhilarating, haunting, angry and meditative, Unbound is a collection that will shatter stereotypes about...
Qurratulain Hyder and The River of Fire
Rakhshanda Jalil
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Born with an impeccable literacy lineage - her father was Sajjad Hyder Yildirim and her...
UMRAO JAN ADA (RUPA)
Mirza Hadi Ruswa
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Umrao Jan Ada, published more than a hundred years ago, was the first novel to...
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