A Season of Betrayals

by Qurratulain Hyder, C.M. Naim (Editor/Introduction)

The stories explore the cataclysmic events that have unmoored the lives of these women and how each, in her own way, battles witha state of exile that is more internal than external. Together they unfold a series of be-trayals-historical, political, personal-and how the women stuggle to come to terms with them.

274 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Qurratulain Hyder was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959 from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of India. Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of writer and a pioneer of Urdu short story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880–1943). Her mother, Nazar Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder (1894–1967), was also a novelist and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel.

She received the 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Patjhar Ki Awaz (Short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Award for Akhir-e-Shab Ke Humsafar, and the highest award of the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1994. She also received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India in 2005.

Reviews

[ava ✧*̣̩⋆̩☽⋆ · Rating 4 out of 5]

dnf — i only have access to 2/3 of the works as i’m reading this for a course, but emotional, impactful writing that makes my heart hurt for women

[Aqeel Ahmad · Rating 5 out of 5]

In most of the parts this book discusses about the identity of Pakistan.The identity is confused to people even after 70 years of Independence.