num_pages: 187
description: Mastur's work, marked by a scathing, uncompromising realism, reveals a deep concern for the lives of ordinary people, especially women, who have been passed by in the rush for modernization. Her fiction also explores the political undercurrents that have shaped Pakistan's turbulent history andshe examines the issues of minorities, a subject rarely touched on in Urdu fiction.
language: English
title: Cool, Sweet Water: Selected Stories
titlecomplete: Cool, Sweet Water: Selected Stories (Pakistan Writers Series)
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Oxford University Press, Karachi