Amina Azfar

Modern Urdu Short Stories from Pakistan

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology brings together English translations of twenty-six Urdu short stories by renowned Pakistani writers. Stories included in the anthology were written between 1947 and the present time. Authors range from the celebrated Saadat Hasan Manto and Intizar Husain to Dr Shershah Syed and Zafar Mehmood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 145mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199405152
• ISBN-10: 0199405158
• Artikelnr.: 54797856

Autorenporträt

Amina Azfar is a freelance editor, writer, and translator. She was educated in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and is a former editor of Oxford University Press, Pakistan. She now works as a freelance editor and translator. Her books, The Dust of the Road, and The Oxford Book of Urdu Short Stories received the Hasan Askari Award for best translation work from the Pakistan Academy of Letters, in the years 2007 and 2009, respectively. Azfar has authored textbooks, as well as storybooks for children in Urdu and English. She has contributed articles to various newspapers, and reviewed books for the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn. Before joining OUP, she taught English language at the Pakistan American Cultural Centre in Karachi for nine years.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
About this Anthology
What the Moon Saw
A Fake Story
Bitter Vine
One Night in Winter
Lawrence of Thalabia
Bastard
The Love Gauge
Bhagwan Das Durkhan
A King and a Farmer
Monkey Tale
Shoba Rani
A Public Flogging
My Homeland, My Idol
Yasin's Child
The Small-bore Pistol
And all was Silent
Footfall of a Thief
Washing Machine
Nature Ineluctable
Akhit Jadoo
In the House of Loneliness
End of the Day
The Builder
OSD
Strays
The Tanga Driver