num_pages: 172
description: Talat Abbasi is one of the best-known fiction writers in English writing about the Pakistani experience. This is a collection of seventeen short stories that explore the worlds of Pakistanis in Karachi and its environs, and of Pakistanis in New York. Collectively the stories portray each strata of contemporary Pakistani society, from the privileged upper classes to servants.
language: English
title: Bitter Gourd & Other Stories
titlecomplete: Bitter Gourd & Other Stories
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Oxford University Press, USA