Sadaat Hasan Manto

Manto's empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic translations have all the agile swiftness and understated poignancy that parallel suggests. ---Boyd Tonkin, Wall Street Journal Stories from "the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story" encircle the marginalised, forgotten lives of Bombay, set against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan Partition. (Salman Rushdie) By far the...