Jahangard Ki Wapsi (Translation)

Description

Nearly 3,000 years ago Homer wrote two great poems, “Iliad” and “Odyssey”. These poems not only mark the beginning of Greek literature but are also looked upon as the foundation blocks of Western literary canon. In “Odyssey”, Odysseus, a man of great courage and cunning, wanders, after the fall of Troy, for ten years, leading a life full of strange adventures, before returning to his island home and saving his wife and son from the clutches of greedy suitors. This ancient classic has been faithfully and expertly translated into Urdu by a well-known literary figure.

Author Biography

Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and the most controversial short-story writer in Urdu, was born on 11 May 1912 at Sambrala in Punjab’s Ludhiana District. In a writing career spanning over two decades he produced twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of reminiscences and many scripts for films. He was tried for obscenity half a dozen times, thrice before and thrice after independence. Not always was he acquitted. Some of Manto’s greatest work was produced in the last seven years of his life, a time of great financial and emotional hardship for him. He died a few months short of his forty-third birthday, in January 1955, in Lahore.