Bitter Gourd & Other Stories

by Talat Abbasi

Talat Abbasi is one of the best-known fiction writers in English writing about the Pakistani experience. This is a collection of seventeen short stories that explore the worlds of Pakistanis in Karachi and its environs, and of Pakistanis in New York. Collectively the stories portray each strata of contemporary Pakistani society, from the privileged upper classes to servants.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195796241
• ISBN13: 9780195796247
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 9.0"

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Review of "Bitter Gourd and Other Stories" by Talat Abbasi

This collection of short stories by Talat Abbasi is a contemporary classic. Set in Pakistan and New York, the stories deal with the lives of ordinary people - rich and poor, master and servant, husband and wife, parents and children. But there is nothing mundane about these stories. In the hands of a master story teller, the ordinary turns into the extraordinary to surprise the reader at every step and reveal the psychological and sociological complexities of people's lives. This collection is a first rate addition to the worldclass literature emanating from South Asian writers.Rating: 5 stars.