Manto Kahania منٹو کہانیاں

by Saadat Hasan Manto

This book contains master piece writing of Saadat Hussain Manto. A must read book. منٹو کہانیاں

703 pages, 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

[Qudsia Maaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

MANTO is very realistic and close to the truth of life. Reading his fables can sometimes be difficult to understand, but you need to look very deeply to grasp his realism.
People who have read this book or any of his other stories and call them pornography or erotica are ignorant individuals with no knowledge of literature. Manto was not only holding up a mirror to the dirt, hypocrisy, and Puritanism in Indian and Pakistani society; he was also showing a way out of it. His stories disturb us because they take us to the darker corners of the psyche, to repressed desires and the ugliness that results. Our society still struggles with the brutalization of women, sexual abuse, sexual repression, and open discussions about sex or sexuality.
Manto continues to hold up a mirror to ourselves.
Hats off to Manto Sahab!
Undoubtedly, he has been a treasure of Urdu literature!