Intikhab: Saadat Hasan Manto

This is a representative selection of the short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto who is considered one of the best-known Urdu fiction writers. Manto made a deep and lasting impact on Urdu literature through his celebrated short stories. Many of his post-Partition stories centred around the communal horrors of the period. The introduction by the well-known literary critic, Asif Farrukhi, is written with a view to make the meaning of Manto’s crusade manifest to the present generation.