Bombay stories
By: Saadat Hasan Manto ; translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad
Contributors: Reeck, Matt, translator; Aḥmad, Āftāb, translator
Edition: First Vintage International Edition.
Publisher: Vintage International/Vintage Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780804170604; 9780804170611
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Khushiya --; title: Ten rupees --; title: Barren --; title: The insult --; title: Smell --; title: Babu Gopi North --; title: Janaki --; title: Peerun --; title: Rude --; title: Hamid's baby --; title: Mummy --; title: Siraj --; title: Mozelle --; title: Mammad Bhai.