The tale of the missing man
Subtitle: a novel
By: Manzoor Ahtesham ; translated from the Hindi by Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark
Contributors: Grunebaum, Jason, translator; Stark, Ulrike, Dr. phil., translator
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780810137585
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social conditions; Muslims; Fiction
Work titles: Dāstāna-e-lāpatā
Description: A refreshingly playful novel, it explores modern Muslim life in the wake of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. Zamir Ahmad Khan suffers from a mix of alienation, guilt, and postmodern anxiety that defies diagnosis. His wife abandons him to his reflections about his childhood, writing, ill-fated affairs, and his hometown, Bhopal, as he attempts to unravel the lies that brought him to his current state (while weaving new ones).
Notes: Text in English translated from Hindi.

Winner of the Global Humanities Translation Prize.