Saadat Hasan Manto

Este pequeño volumen constituye un significativo esfuerzo por dar a conocer por primera vez en español al gran cuentista indopaquistaní Saadat Hasan Manto y su obra, escrita originalmente en urdu.

The Siyah Hashiye stories written by Manto are related to the India and Pakistan Partition period. These stories that encompass a line or a paragraph are called Siyah Hashiye, which means Black borders. It is believed that when bad or morose news was published in the newspaper much like today, it was bordered with a black outline. Mantos Siyah Hashiyes gives you a similar twitch in the stomach that you feel when you hear of a death or an accident of a dear one. His pen pierces through your heart like a prick of a needle leaving no bruise, just an urgent rush of pain.

Tamasha’, published in a small literary magazine from Lahore, was built around the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

[Mantos] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic translations have all the agile swiftness and understated poignancy that parallel suggests." ---Boyd Tonkin, Wall Street JournalStories from "the undisputed master of the modern Indian short story" encircling the marginalized, forgotten lives of Bombay, set against the backdrop of the India-Pakistan Partition (Salman Rushdie)By far the most comprehensive collection of stories by this 20th Century master available in English. A master of the short story, Saadat Hasan Manto opens a window onto Bombays demimondeits prostitutes, rickshaw drivers, artists, and strays as well probing the pain and bewilderment of the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs ripped apart by the India-Pakistan Partition. Manto is best known for his dry-eyed examination of the violence, horrors, and reverberations from the Partition. From a stray dog caught in the crossfire at the fresh border of India and Pakistan, to friendly neighbors turned enemy soldiers pausing for tea together in a momentary cease fireManto shines incandescent light into hidden corners with an unflinching gaze, and a fierce humanism. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Vijay Seshadri, these stories are essential reading for our current moment where divisiveness is erupting into violence in so many parts of the world.

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and Pakistan like no other. The Price of Freedom brings together ten of his best stories, focusing on human voices from the religious fracture that forever unhinged two newly independent nations. Powerful, piercing and deeply moving, Mantos works are key to understanding this bloody chapter in South Asian history.

A rebellious yet human portrait of Indias bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto. The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story Salman Rushdie, ObserverIn the 1930s and 40s, Bombay was the cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent - an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless degradation. It was also muse to the celebrated short story writer of India and Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto. Mantos hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative. In searching out those forgotten by humanity - prostitutes, conmen and crooks - Manto wrote about what it means to be human.

Diez rupias. Historias de la India recoge dieciocho relatos del más importante escritor de la India moderna, como reconoce Salman Rushdie. Manto, que fue capaz de observar con imparcialidad el mundo convulso y violento que le rodeaba, y que se mantuvo al margen de corrientes y juicios morales, continua invitandonos a desenmascarar la hipocresia y a contemplar la vida en su totalidad y cara a cara, sin mascaras ni adornos. En estos relatos nos encontramos temas diversos: muchos de ellos son de denuncia social, en otros la politica, la independencia de Reino Unido o los conflictos religiosos son el tema centra. Los relatos de Saadat Hasan Manto, ademas de excelentes piezas literarias, son una cronica de los sucesos mas dolorosos de la historia india de la primera mitad del siglo xx.

Toba Tek Singh reúne catorce relatos de Saadat Hasan Manto, considerado el Maupassant de la literatura en urdu. Manto no solo es el autor más leído en esta lengua, sino probablemente el más controvertido. No en vano, fue acusado en cinco ocasiones de obscenidad por tratar sin tapujos temas como el deseo y el despertar sexual, el incesto, la prostitucion y el proxenetismo. Varios de los relatos incluidos en esta seleccion giran en torno a estos temas (Humo, Olor o Khushia). Tambien se incluyen varios cuentos en los que Manto se muestra como un fiel cronista de las luchas civiles y religiosas y el holocausto que conllevo la Particion de la India, de los que el y su familia fueron victimas. Entre estos se encuentran, ademas del que da titulo a la coleccion, ¡Abre!, El perro de Titwal o Carne fria. Salman Rushdie considera a Manto El maestro indiscutible del relato moderno de la India.

Diez rupias. Historias de la India recoge dieciocho relatos del más importante escritor de la India moderna, como reconoce Salman Rushdie. Manto, que fue capaz de observar con imparcialidad el mundo convulso y violento que le rodeaba, y que se mantuvo al margen de corrientes y juicios morales, continua invitandonos a desenmascarar la hipocresia y a contemplar la vida en su totalidad y cara a cara, sin mascaras ni adornos.En estos relatos nos encontramos temas diversos: muchos de ellos son de denuncia social, en otros la politica, la independencia de Reino Unido o los conflictos religiosos son el tema centra. Los relatos de Saadat Hasan Manto, ademas de excelentes piezas literarias, son una cronica de los sucesos mas dolorosos de la historia india de la primera mitad del siglo xx.