Name: Tower of Silence: Short Stories Translated from the Urdu (en Inglés)
SKU: 69240312
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Author: Khan, Asad Muhammad
ISBN: 9798161276815

portada Tower of Silence: Short Stories Translated from the Urdu (en Inglés)

Tower of Silence: Short Stories Translated from the Urdu (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Independently published

Autor

Khan, Asad Muhammad

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

111

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9798161276815

Tower of Silence: Short Stories Translated from the Urdu (en Inglés)

Khan, Asad Muhammad (Autor) · Independently published · Tapa Blanda

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A disinherited man and a beggar the town mistakes for a leper share a ruined graveyard, and when a poisonous cloud rolls over their city, each prays that the other will be saved. A village wet nurse saves for a lifetime to see Mecca and Medina, then spends every coin on her dying son. A proud old retainer guards a Pathan clan's family tree, and a secret of his own. A young Sufi digs a drought-stricken field by night, and a governor of Sher Shah Suri drives away his horse in shame at a single unworthy thought. Tower of Silence is the English translation of Burj-e-Khamoshan, a celebrated Urdu collection by Asad Muhammad Khan. Moving from the old princely states of central India to Karachi, from the famine of 1896 in Mianwali to the court of Sher Shah Suri and the plain of Karbala, its fifteen pieces range from tender realism to biting satire, history and fable. Alongside the stories are a satirical prayer, a radio play for voices, an absurdist dialogue, and the author's Urdu rendering of a story by Jorge Luis Borges. Khan writes with humor, anger and deep compassion about people pushed to the margins (interlopers, servants, beggars, dreamers) and about the pride and decay of old families and old certainties. Translated by Dr. Asghar Bashir, this edition keeps the voices, idioms and cultural texture of the original while reading naturally in English. Contents: Munajat Ghus Baithiya Maryam of Basoda Mai Dada Chakar A Moment's Companionship The Sayings of Bhopta Dzung Tirlochan A Revelation in the Morgue Just One Man of the City of Kufa Tower of Silence The Jar Chorus Written by the Hand of the Lord