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“ismat chughtai”

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  • A Chughtai Quartet: Obsession, The Wild One, Wild Pigeons, The Heart Breaks Free

    by Ismat Chughtai ...
    Translated by Tahira Naqvi ...
    The four novellas in this volume span the inimitable Ismat Chughtai’s literary career, from 1939 to 1971. Each one develops the author’s central preoccupation with the lives of women as they experience love, tragedy, societal prescriptions and proscriptions, in collision with their own rebellious spirit. A keen sense of their individual subversive potential and a willingness to take the ... Read more

    $4.64 CAD

  • The Crooked Line

    by Ismat Chughtai, Tahira Naqvi ...
    Translated by Tahira Naqvi ...
    A young Indian woman searches for her own identity as her country fights for independence in this novel from the award-winning Urdu Indian author.The Crooked Line is the story of Shamman, a spirited young woman who rebels against the traditional Indian life of purdah, or female seclusion, that she and her sisters are raised in. Shipped off to boarding school by her family, Shamman grows into a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Life in Words: Memoirs

    by Ismat Chughtai ...
    Narrated by Dilshad Khurana ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtai's celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Along side vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. Chughtai is searingly honest about her fight to ... Read more

    $23.00 CAD

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  • Honor

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  • Poovan Banana and Other Stories

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    Edited by Urvashi Butalia ...
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