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Fires in an Autumn Garden: Short Stories from Urdu and the Regional Languages of Pakistan

Edited by Asif Aslam Farrukhi






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For politicians and social scientists the 50th year of Pakistan's independence will be a time for stock-taking. A time to decipher and decode the country. However, an alternative view of history emerges from the work of the country's fiction writers. Drawn from all the major languages of Pakistan, this anthology is an attempt to read the country through its fiction.

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Publisher | Oxford University Press
Published date | 23 Jul 1998
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 440
Dimensions | 216 x 138 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 743g
ISBN | 978-0-1957-7818-2
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BISAC | fiction / anthologies (multiple authors)


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