| Author: |
Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi |
| Publisher: |
Oxford |
Description:
‘The Old Banyan and Other Stories’ presents a translation of fifteen stories by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, a major figure in contemporary Urdu Literature. Mr Qasmi is equally well-known in Pakistan as poet, journalist, literary critic, and short story writer. This speciman of his work spans over half a century of his creative output.
The stories included in this volume reveal the work of a writer who has observed the life of others around him, more often in a rural setting, with the eye of a shrewd observer, albeit a sympathetic and compassionate one, and has found them worth celebrating in his fiction.
Ever faithful to the avowed ideal of the ‘Progressive Writers Movement’, he has consistently employed the representational, realistic mode of narration, shunning experiment and novelty, and has demonstrated an abiding concern with the dilemmas generated in the lives of his characters by economic factors, and by social and moral issues.
The ultimate compliment one can pay a writer like Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi is to say that his fiction sounds like the truth, that is to say, stranger than fiction, because it is so true to life.
| DesiStore # |
PBS00849 |
| Pages |
229 |
| Weight (kg) |
0.28 |
| Weight (lbs) |
0.7 |
| Dimensions: |
22x14x1cm |
| HB/PB |
Paper Back |
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The Old Banyan and Other Stories
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