num_pages: 129
description: In India’s colonial past, in a time of political and social revolution, Ismat Chughtai masterfully unfolds her magna opus, The Crooked Line: the semi-autobiographical tale of a fiery-spirited, middle-class Muslim girl bent on exploring the shape and nature of consuming desire. Writing with the same honesty and passion as her scandalous short-story, “The Quilt,” Chughtai exposes the complex relationships developed between women living and working in relative seclusion, and the intellectual and emotional contradictions lying in the heart of a rebellious country on the brink of independence from the British Raj and ultimately Partition.
language: English
title: The Crooked Line
titlecomplete: The Crooked Line (Asian Writers)
genres: Classics, LGBT, Indian Literature, India, Asia, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 280
publisher: Heinemann