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The quilt & other stories / Ismat Chughtai ; preface by Anita Desai ; translated by Tahira Naqvi & Syeda S. Hameed.

Title
The quilt & other stories / Ismat Chughtai ; preface by Anita Desai ; translated by Tahira Naqvi & Syeda S. Hameed.
Author
Cug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat, 1915-1991
Publication
Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York : Sheep Meadow Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
Naqvi, Tahira
Description
xx, 149 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
These fifteen frank and often wickedly comic, explore the realities and conflicts of life in Indian Muslim society.
Alternative Title
Quilt and other stories.
Subject
  • Cug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat, 1915-1991 > Translations into English
  • India > Social life and customs > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Translations
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The veil (Ghunghat) -- The quilt (Lihaaf) -- Sacred duty (Muqaddas Farz) -- The eternal vine (Amar Bel) -- Kallu (Kallu) -- Choti Apa (Choti Apa) -- The rock (Chatan) -- The wedding shroud (Chauthi ka Jora) -- The mole (Til) -- A morsel (Niwala) -- By the grace of God (Allah ka Fazl) -- Poison (Zehr) -- A pair of hands (Do Haath) -- Bichu Phupi (Bichu Phupi) -- Scent of the body (Badan ki Khushboo).
ISBN
1878818341
LCCN
^^^94019776^
OCLC
  • 30702940
  • SCSB-10724579
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library