The Death of Sheherzad - Couverture souple

Hussain, Intizar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9351362876 ISBN 13 : 9789351362876

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2014

Synopsis

'Intizar Husain's stories often tread that twilight zone between fable and parable. His narratives are spun on an oriental loom' - Keki N. Daruwalla A man scours the town he left fifty years ago for some little evidence of past joys. Javed, who's returned to Lahore from East Pakistan, won't speak of what he witnessed 'there'. An old woman boards a train full of dead ancestors in her dreams. A sage who cannot control his anger must seek out a butcher for redemption. Mahaban, home of the monkeys once, is now a city full of human beings. Sheherzad, who once told Emperor Shaharyar a thousand-and-one stories, is now an old woman who has forgotten her yarns of fantasy. The stories in The Death of Sheherzad ably represent Intizar Husain's oeuvre, defying narrative tradition and exploring the past, specifically Partition, as a means of unravelling the present. He imaginatively revisits a syncretic, tolerant pluralistic past to analyse why the tide turned so irreversibly. Questioning everything - faith, violence, society - Husain probes the horrors of Partition in a manner as oblique as it is trenchant. Imbued with dark wit and literary brilliance, these stories at once shock, agitate and entertain.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Intizar Husain was born in the United Provinces, India, on 21 December 1925. He emigrated to Pakistan in 1947 and lives in Lahore. A chronicler of change, Husain has written five novels and published seven collections of short stories. Naya Ghar (The New

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9351362876
• ISBN 13: 9789351362876
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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