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SHIP OF SORROWS

a novel

Qurratulain Hyder

Translated by : Saleem Kidwai

9789385606236

Women Unlimited 2019

Language: English

284 Pages

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About the Book

At the heart of Ship of Sorrows is a group of young friends, men and women, Hindu and Muslim, living in Lucknow on the cusp of Indian Independence. Like the rest of the country, their lives are in turmoil. Qurratulain Hyder places the six friends in situations that reflect this changing context and reveal their complex relationships with each other and with their altered reality. As the partition of the country looms, and their separation from each other and from their known worlds becomes imminent, their cargo of sorrows gets heavier. Yet, the ship of sorrows is not a doomed ship—through a tangle of sounds, images and emotions, Hyder navigates it to a harbour that promises hope and renewal.

Qurratulain Hyder

Qurratulain Hyder is one of Urdu’s greatest fiction writers. Her published work consists of four collections of short stories, five novels and several novellas. She was a journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster with BBC, as well as Producer Emeritus, AIR, and copywriter for an advertising agency. Among her many awards and honours are the Padma Shri, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Bharatiya Jnanpith, and the Padma Bhushan.

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Saleem Kidwai

Saleem Kidwai is a medieval historian, scholar and translator. He has co-edited Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous roots of same-sex desire in South Asia; has translated Qurratulain Hyder’s Ship of Sorrows, the singer Malika Pukhraj's autobiography, Song Sung True (2004) and Mirror of Wonders and Other Tales (2012), a collection of short stories by Syed Rafiq Hussain.

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