KAHANI

SHORT STORIES BY PAKISTANI WOMEN

By AAMER HUSSEIN

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Pakistan's finest women writers — Jamila Hashmi, Mumtaz Shirin, Fahmida Riaz, amongst others - introduce us to the compelling cadences of a rich literary culture. A naive peasant is left with a white man's baby; a frustrated housewife slashes her husband's silk pyjamas a middle-class woman sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals...Equally at ease with polemic and lyricism, these writers mirror the events of their convoluted history - nationalism and independence wars with India, the creation of Bangladesh, the ethnic conflicts in Karachi — in innovative and courageous forms. Influenced both by the Indian and Islamic traditions of their milieu and by the shocking impact of modernity; they are distinguished above all by their artistic integrity and intellectual honesty.

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Book Details

ISBN: 0863565778
Categories:
All Products, Fiction
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2005
Number of Pages: 170
Author:
AAMER HUSSEIN
Publisher: SAQI BOOKS
Language: English
Weight: 0.36 g

About the Author

Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi and moved to London in .1970. He is the author of three collections of stories, including Turquoise and This Other Salt. He reviews regularly for The Independent and the TLS, as well as for several Pakistani national newspapers. He holds visiting posts at the University of Southampton and the University of London, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.