The Crooked Line (Asian Writers)

By Ismat Chughtai

In India's colonial past, in a time of political and social revolution, Ismat Chughtai masterfully unfolds her "magna opus", "The Crooked Line" the semi-autobiographical tale of a fiery-spirited, middle-class Muslim girl bent on exploring the shape and nature of consuming desire. Writing with the same honesty and passion as her scandalous short-story, "The Quilt," Chughtai exposes the complex relationships developed between women living and working in relative seclusion, and the intellectual and emotional contradictions lying in the heart of a rebellious country on the brink of independence from the British Raj and ultimately Partition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435950894
• ISBN13: 9780435950897
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.3"