Colours of Loneliness

by Iqbal, Muzaffar

• ISBN13: 9780195778502
• ISBN10: 0195778502
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of forty-two stories by many of Pakistan's leading writers will introduce Western readers to a rich and enchanting fictional world. All works are translated into English, many for the first time.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note
Introduction
Overcoat	p. 1
The Sinner	p. 10
The Shepherd	p. 18
Wrong Number	p. 41
Shock	p. 58
Is This a Way to Live?	p. 61
Thus Spoke the Sparrow	p. 68
The Lost Ones	p. 69
The Cave	p. 88
The Bell	p. 92
History	p. 117
Weeping Darkness	p. 127
The Jackal	p. 139
The Return	p. 146
A Few Hours in an Alien City	p. 154
Apa	p. 167
Embarrassment	p. 181
I Know not Who I am	p. 199
Identification	p. 204
Coward	p. 213
Mitthal Shah's Yard	p. 222
The Mad Man	p. 237
Obsession	p. 247
Never a Widow	p. 252
A Lament	p. 258
Many Faces of Truth	p. 268
The Ascetic	p. 277
The Chief	p. 284
The Garden of Delights	p. 291
Misappropriation of the Trust	p. 295
Mother	p. 301
Mahtaba	p. 314
Descent	p. 324
The Black Figure	p. 334
Dry Earth	p. 344
Shabo	p. 363
Who was to Blame?	p. 369
When History Died in My Arms	p. 377
Glossary	p. 385
Notes on the contributors	p. 391
Notes on the translators	p. 401
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