Urdu Stories

Author: Rakhshanda JalilPublisher: SrishtiYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 214ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187075910 DescriptionThis substantial collection of short stories by 12 foremost writers presents a sample of all that is good and noteworthy and also appeal to a reader encountering Urdu literature for the first time.A Major language of the Asian subcontinent, Urdu has a rich and varied literary output. The Urdu short story had a late flowering, growing as it did under the shadow of Urdu poetry, especially the ghazal which for long remained the only true love of many Urdu speakers. The social and political upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s helped the short story come into its own and the Progressive Writers’ Movement gave it a focus and its first crop of extremely talented writers.This substantial collection of short stories presents a sample of all that is good and noteworthy and also most likely to appeal to a reader encountering Urdu literature for the first time. Like all sel