Cool, Sweet Water: Selected Stories

by Khadija Mastoor, Khadija Mastoor, Tahira Naqvi (Translator)

Mastur's work, marked by a scathing, uncompromising realism, reveals a deep concern for the lives of ordinary people, especially women, who have been passed by in the rush for modernization. Her fiction also explores the political undercurrents that have shaped Pakistan's turbulent history and
she examines the issues of minorities, a subject rarely touched on in Urdu fiction.

187 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Khadija Mastoor is an Urdu writer from Pakistan famous for her novel Aangan.

Born in British India and later migrated to Pakistan with her sister Hajra Masroor, who is also a skillful writer herself, Khadija wrote 7 books on social and moral values. Her Books are:

1. Khail (1944)
2. Bochaar (1946)
3. Chand Roz Aur (1951)
4. Thakay Haray (1962)
5. Aangan (1962) - winner of Adamjee Literary Award
6. Thanda Meetha Paani (1981) - winner of Hijra Award
7. Zameen (1983)