The East Wind and Other Short Stories

Download or read book The East Wind and Other Short Stories written by Z̤amīruddīn Aḥmad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories collected in this volume represent a distinctive contribution to the modern Urdu short story. Focused primarily on the lives of Urduspeaking Muslim families in Pakistan and pre-Partition India, the stories explore the nature of compromise and moral death, and the emotional and sexual lives of women with a remarkable command of cultural detail and understatement. But the narrow canvas of the stories and their quietness should not obscure the sense of outrage that lies at the heart of these stories-an outrage at the continued destruction of the unique multicultural heritage of the subcontinent, and of the linguistic heritage of Urdu at the hands of sectarian violence and religious chauvinism. Book jacket.