The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

It throughs light on the life of Manto most authentacily. His sufferings and pains caused from the partition feflected through his stories find similarity with life and creations of Writwik Ghatak the eminent film parsonality of Indian subcontinent. This book indeed helped me to learn about his life and creation to a great extent.

Sincerely written avery informative book

The good book indeed. They would have made out this hardcover edition in better paper quality.

A good and incisive read.

I had never read Manto seriously before except for a couple of his short stories. If anyone wants to know the background then this is the book to read. I shakes your heart and jitters your mind.

This book was an eye opener. I do not think the west understands what a mistake it was to break up India into 3 countries. So much loss of life and suffering. Manto wrote to these problems clearly and he had a big following for his writings. 10,000 people came to his funeral.

An impressive and wonderfully informed of the most important literary chronicler of Partition. Jalal doesn't quite answer her own question - about how creative writing is folded in with other more conventional historical source material - but she does know and love her subject.

Very nicely written.Took me back before psrtition. Not that I agree with all of it.

This biography of the great Urdu writer Manto, by his niece, a historian and excellent writer herself, draws on a wealth of interviews and primary source materials. It portrays a man whose writing reflected the effects on ordinary people of living through tumultuous times. Recommended.