The Pity of Partition: Manto S Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide

by Ayesha Jalal

A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writers

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691153620
• ISBN13: 9780691153629
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"