Manto Kay Afsanay

by Saadat Hasan Manto

Manto Kay Afsanay by Saadat Hassan Manto

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Saadat Hasan Manto (Urdu: سعادت حسن منٹو, Hindi: सआदत हसन मंटो), the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Sambrala in Punjab's Ludhiana District. In a writing career spanning over two decades he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of reminiscences and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Not always was he acquitted. Some of Manto's greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. He died a few months short of his forty-third birthday, in January 1955, in Lahore.

Reviews

[Sameem Islam]

He revealed the truth. And hence he was punished.

This is somehow an unwritten law of the society that whoever speaks the truth is punished by the group of people who call themselves the most pious of all.

In his book, he is blunt, he is harsh, he is very straight forward. But the fact is, he is right.

[Imran]

Second collection of Manto's short stories written / published in 1940s before partition. If you have read stories written after partition like 'Toba Tek Singh', 'Gurmukh Singh ki Wasiyat' and 'Thanda Gosht', stories in this collection does not impress you to that extent. In my view, if partition had not happened, Manto would not be Manto. Stories in this collection can be termed average. Some stories like 'Pahaa' and 'Blouser' sounds cheap and shallow. May be these stories were considered ahead of time when they first published due to their shocking topics, but I personally think that if Manto had not written such stories, readers would not have missed any thing at all.

[Zara Rizwan]

This man had been mistreated and misunderstood all his life by the so-called "shareef" society.He knew how to place the naked realities with ornamented fallacies. He knew, that moral degradation, prostitution, and sexual frustration wasn't initiated by a female, males were the sole carriers of all these things but they got away prowessly with every allegation. He was also well aware of the fact that how poor people were being forced to eat the crust of the humanity. Anyone who doesn't think like the majority and is a born rebel should read this book.

[Muneeza]

منٹو جس بے دردی سے معاشرے کی غلاظت کو بیان کرتے ہیں اس کا مقابلہ اردو ادیب تو کیا کؤی بھی نہیں کر سکتا۔ اس کتاب میں ان کے افسانے اور مضامین دونوں شامل ہیں۔ ہر کہانی کے کردار منفرد ہیں اور ان کے لئے ہمدردی محسوس کرنا مشکل نہیں۔ منٹو کو عورتوں کی فطرت اور جذبات کا بھی درست اندازہ تھا جس کی وجہ سے ان کے افسانوں میں خواتین اصلی اور مستند ہوتی ہیں۔

[Muhammad Zaman]

What other hind Manto write

[Muhammad Afaq khattak]

Favourite one "ٹوبہ ٹیک سنگھ"
Can't give much of my reviews about his short stories because I don't want to count myself among the book spoilers.

[Sahar Gulzar]

Manto has been reduced to the writer of sexual perversion but in this work he explores a wide variety of characters and themes. From the restless, mischievous 8 year old to a teen-aged boy dealing with puberty, a man suffering from depression to working class Indians' struggle with the colonial oppression, although he does circle back to his favourite themes several times.

[Aamir Sohail]

manto sahab's exceptional but close to the reality based stories.... once you read you will feel like you are reading current affairs or news.

[Chaudhary Saad]

Why i’m nit getting option of open book?

[Amna Maqbool]

True representation of the society and its dark secrets.

[Ghalib]

شاندار

[امير حمزه]

Most of them are lengthy but some are more interesting.