Mottled Dawn; Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140272127 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 214 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-28 |
| Language | : | Urdu |
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Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Samrala in Punjab s Ludhiana district. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. . He died several months short of his forty-third birthday, in January 1955, in Lahore. In a literary, journalistic, radio scripting and film-writing career spread over more than two decades, he produced twenty-two colle
Mottled Dawn is a collection of Saadat Hasan Manto s most powerful pieces on the Partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947. The book includes unforgettable stories like Toba Tek Singh , The Return , The Assignment , Colder Than Ice and many more, bringing alive the most tragic event in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
--Salman RushdieManto s stories will endure as perhaps the best work of fiction on the Partition and its painful impact on the Indo-Pak ethos --Indian ExpressThere is still no literary rival to Manto(and) as communalism, religious intolerance and enmity between India and Pakistan continue to grow, his stories are still highly relevant. --IndependentManto s stories will endure as perhaps the best work of fiction on the Partition and its painful impact on the Indo-Pak ethos --Indian ExpressThere is still no literary rival to Manto(and) as communalism, religious intolerance and enmity between India and Pakistan continue to grow, his stories are still highly relevant. The undis