Snake Catcher - Rilegato

Masud, Naiyer; Memon, Muhammad Umar

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ISBN 10: 1566566290 ISBN 13: 9781566566292

Casa editrice: Interlink Pub Group Inc, 2005

Riassunto

The author's second work to appear in English is featured in this masterful collection of stories by the author of Essence of Camphor. Original.

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Recensione:

Even shorn of its immense humanity, Masud's lyricism would dazzle, for he is, without doubt, a poet's storyteller --Agha Shahid Ali

L'autore:

Naiyer Masud was born in 1936 in Lucknow, India, where he lives to this day, in Adabistan (Abode of Literature), the house his father built. A scholar of Persian and Urdu and a renowned translator of Kafka and contemporary Iranian fiction, he began writing stories in early boyhood. He has published three highly acclaimed collections in Urdu, including the previously translated Essence of Camphor (1999).

Muhammad Umar Memon is professor of Islamic studies, Urdu, and Persian at the University of Wisconsin. He has translated extensively from modern Urdu, and is the author of, among other books, The Colour of Nothingness: Modern Urdu Short Stories and The Tale of the Old Fisherman: Contemporary Urdu Short Stories. He serves as editor of the Annual of Urdu Studies.

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• Editore: Interlink Pub Group Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1566566290
• ISBN 13: 9781566566292
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276