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Pity of Partition Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

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Auteur:	Jalal, Ayesha
Titel:	Pity of Partition Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide
Uitgever:	Princeton University Press
ISBN:	9780691153629
ISBN boekversie:	9781400846689
Serie:	The Lawrence Stone Lectures
Land van oorsprong:	United States
Prijs:	€ 47.68
Verschijningsdatum:	24-02-2013
Bericht:	Langere levertijd (2-3 weken)

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Categorie:	Asian history
Geillustreerd:	26 halftones.
Dewey code:	891.43936

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Verschijningsvorm:	Hardback
Paginas:	288
Hoogte mm.:	216
Breedte mm.:	149
Dikte mm.:	25
Gewicht gr.:	518

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Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, an