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Syed Akbar Hyder
This study journeys into the little-known reportage works of legendary Urdu writer Qurratulain Hyder, mapping the creative archives of memory, movement, and polyvocality that empowered her storytelling to transcend any…
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Qurratulain Hyder
One woman’s journey through the tumultuous and passionate birth of a new nation.
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Magisterial (Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books) and to Urdu fiction what One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Hispanic literature (TLS)
Jameel Akhtar
This book is an interview between two famous writers, Jameel Akhtar and Qurratulain Hyder. The interview explores Hyder’s literature and previously unknown aspects of her personal life.
Hasan Shah
Written in 1790, Hasan Shah’s autobiographical romance, The Dancing Girl, is remarkable for both its lyrical prose and its fine recreation of a time, a place, and a culture -…
