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Saadat Hasan Manto
Translated from the Urdu by Matthew Reeck and Aftab Ahmad
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Saadat Hasan Manto was one of the leading Urdu short story writers of the twentieth century. His work translated into English has appeared in The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, Stars from Another Sky: The Bombay Film World of the 1940s (Penguin), and Words Without Borders.
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