A CHUGHTAI QUARTET'

Obsession, The Wild One, Wild Pigeons, The Heart Breaks Free

Ismat Chughtai

Translated by : Tahira Naqvi

9788188965878

Women Unlimited 2014

Language: English

331 Pages

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About the Book

This volume of four novellas spans the inimitable Ismat Chughtai’s literary career, from 1939 to 1971. Each novella develops the author’s central preoccupation with the lives of women as they experience love, tragedy, societal prescriptions and proscriptions, in collision with their own rebellious spirit.

Ismat Chughtai
ISMAT CHUGTAI (1915-1991), one of Urdu's boldest and most outspoken women writers, played an important role in the development of the modern Urdu short story as we know it today. Not only did she make strides in the areas of style and technique, she also led her female contemporaries on a remarkable journey of self-awareness and undaunted creative expression. Women Unlimited and Kali for Women pioneered the translation of much of Chugtai's work in English, making available her most significant writings for the first time. Among these are My Friend, My Enemy: Essays, Reminiscences, Portraits (Kali for Women, 2001), A Chugtai Collection [which includes "The Quilt and Other Stories", "The Heart Breaks Free" and "The Wild One" (Women Unlimited, 2003), The Crooked Line (Women Unlimited, 2003) and A Very strange Man (Women Unlimited, forthcoming).

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Tahira Naqvi

Tahira Naqvi is a translator, writer, and Clinical Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, where she teaches Urdu language and literature. She has translated the works of Sa’adat Hasan Manto, Khadija Mastur, Hajra Masroor, and the majority of works by Ismat Chughtai, into English. She has published two collections of short stories, Attar of Roses and Other Stories of Pakistan and Dying in a Strange Country. The History Teacher of Lahore is her first novel. Naqvi grew up in Lahore.

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