The Book of Aleph {Volume 6}

the collected stories of saadat hasan manto
(volume one)
translated by nasreen rehman
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest
stars of Urdu literature, in a literary career spanning no more than two decades,
Manto published over twenty collections of short stories. Several of these have
been adapted into films and plays that have won a multitude of awards. His
stories about the 1947 Partition are some of the best accounts ever written on
the catastrophic event.
In The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, award-winning writer and
translator Nasreen Rehman will translate and collect all of Manto’s stories (over
two hundred in all) into English (this is the first time that such an effort has been
made). Authorized by the Manto family, and to be published in three volumes
over three years, this comprehensive collection will include well-known stories
like ‘My Name is Radha’, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, ‘True Love’, ‘The Psychoanalyst’ and
‘Open’, as well as several that have never been translated into English before.
Nasreen Rehman was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She divides her time
between England and South Asia. A lapsed economist, she was lured to history
by the work of the late professor Sir C. A. Bayly (1945-2015). As a very mature
student, she went to the University of Cambridge where, supervised by him, she
completed her PhD dissertation on A History of the Cinema in Lahore c. 1919-
1947. It will be published by OUP Pakistan in 2017.
Nasreen is an award-winning screenwriter who has worked with directors such
as Yash Chopra, Deepa Mehta and Mehreen Jabbar. Kaifi and I (2010), her
translation of Shaukat Kaifi’s memoir, was a bestseller.
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