Manto Ke Hashiye (Urdu Edition): Selected Short Stories of Manto

Manto Ke Hashiye presents Saadat Hasan Manto at his most fearless: a writer who brought sexuality, prostitution, desire, violence, humiliation, and social hypocrisy into Urdu fiction without disguising the ugliness of the world around him.

At the center of this Urdu collection are the stories around which accusations, censorship, and legal proceedings for obscenity arose: "Dhuan," "Bu," "Kali Shalwar," "Khol Do," "Thanda Gosht," and "Upar Neeche Aur Darmiyan." These works were condemned in t...