Bombay Stories
Autor: | Manto, Saadat Hasan |
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EAN: | 9780804170604 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 304 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 25.03.2014 |
Schlagworte: | Indien / Roman, Erzählung |
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A collection of classic, yet shockingly contemporary, short stories set in the vibrant world of mid-century Bombay, from one of India's greatest writers.Arriving in 1930s Bombay, Saadat Hasan Manto discovered a city like no other. A metropolis for all, and an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless despondency. A journalist, screenwriter, and editor, Manto is best known as a master of the short story, and Bombay was his lifelong muse. Vividly bringing to life the city's seedy underbelly-the prostitutes, pimps, and gangsters that filled its streets-as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame, here are all of Manto's Bombay-based stories, together in English for the very first time. By turns humorous and fantastical, Manto's tales are the provocative and unflinching lives of those forgotten by humanity.