Description
This is an impressive collection of Ismat Chughtai’s stories which explore and expose middle class Muslim mores with sharp observation and a rapier-like wit.
About the Author
Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. Wikipedia
