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Bird in Flight, a volume of afsanche (flash fiction) by Paul, brings to you another facet of his artistry. These micro stories are slices of life that have been transmuted into sparkling gems of creativity. With such constraint on the use of words and so much abandon in meaning making, the reader is sure to feel the expanse of the artist's vision captured consummately within the confines of the brevity of the microfiction form.

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Written between 1940 and 1975, the fifteen short stories included in this collection comprise favorites like 'Garam Coat' (Woollen Coat), 'Lajwanti', 'Apne Dukh Mujhe De Do' (Give Me Your Sorrows), 'Rahman ke Joote' (Rahman's Shoes) and others. Bedi's stories dissect human emotions with grim precision as he navigates the everyday lives of men and women, exposing social inequities and economic problems.","published_at":"2025-10-05T09:47:38-04:00","created_at":"2025-10-05T09:47:36-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00","vendor":"Prakash Books","product_type":"Books","tags":["Dr Surinder Deol (Translator)","Gopi Chand Narang (Editor","new english book","new release","penguin india","prakash books","Rajinder Singh Bedi (Author)","Translator)"],"variants":[{"id":48825095225581,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":null,"requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"price":"269.00","grams":250,"compare_at_price":"275.00","position":1,"product_id":9129980199149,"created_at":"2025-10-05T09:47:36-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00"}],"images":[{"id":45179944337645,"created_at":"2025-10-05T09:47:36-04:00","position":1,"updated_at":"2025-10-05T09:47:38-04:00","product_id":9129980199149,"variant_ids":[],"src":"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0355/1415/5141/files/ACW16uCMJg.jpg?v=1759672058","width":275,"height":425}],"options":[{"name":"Title","position":1,"values":["Default Title"]}]},{"id":9129914564845,"title":"The Women’s Courtyard","handle":"the-women-s-courtyard","body_html":"Aliya lives a life confined to the inner courtyard of her home with her older sister and irritable mother, while the men of the family throw themselves into the political movements of the day. She is tormented by the petty squabbles of the household and dreams of educating herself and venturing into the wider world. But Aliya must endure many trials before she achieves her goals, though at what personal cost?
Set in the 1940s, with Partition looming on the horizon, The Women's Courtyard cleverly brings into focus the claustrophobic lives of women whose entire existence was circumscribed by the four walls of their homes, and for whom the outside world remained an inaccessible dream. Daisy Rockwell's elegant and nuanced translation captures the poignance and power of Khadija Mastur's inimitable voice.","published_at":"2025-10-05T08:48:10-04:00","created_at":"2025-10-05T08:48:04-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00","vendor":"Prakash Books","product_type":"Books","tags":["Daisy Rockwell (Translator)","ew release","Khadija Mastur (Author)","new english book","penguin india","prakash books"],"variants":[{"id":48824982733037,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":null,"requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"price":"479.00","grams":450,"compare_at_price":"499.00","position":1,"product_id":9129914564845,"created_at":"2025-10-05T08:48:04-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00"}],"images":[{"id":45179451080941,"created_at":"2025-10-05T08:48:04-04:00","position":1,"updated_at":"2025-10-05T08:49:10-04:00","product_id":9129914564845,"variant_ids":[],"src":"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0355/1415/5141/files/dLiGtfzp68.webp?v=1759668550","width":319,"height":445},{"id":45179451048173,"created_at":"2025-10-05T08:48:04-04:00","position":2,"updated_at":"2025-10-05T08:49:10-04:00","product_id":9129914564845,"variant_ids":[],"src":"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0355/1415/5141/files/J6l1qq4uxP.jpg?v=1759668550","width":975,"height":1500}],"options":[{"name":"Title","position":1,"values":["Default Title"]}]},{"id":9129907880173,"title":"A Promised Land","handle":"a-promised-land","body_html":"In the wake of the Partition, a new country is born. As millions of refugees pour into Pakistan, swept up in a welter of chaos and deprivation, Sajidah and her father find their way to the Walton refugee camp, uncertain of their future in what is to become their new home.

Sajidah longs to be reunited with her beloved Salahuddin, but her journey out of the camp takes an altogether unforeseen route. Drawn into the lives of another family-refugees like herself-she is wary of its men, particularly Nazim, the eldest son whose gaze lingers over her. But it is the women of the household whose lives and choices will transform her the most: the passionately beseeching Saleema, her domineering mother Khala Bi, the kind but forlorn Amma Bi, and the feisty young housemaid Taji.

With subtlety and insight, Khadija Mastur conjures a d ynamic portrait of spirited women whose lives are wrought by tragedy and trial even as they cling defiantly to the promise of a better future.","published_at":"2025-10-05T08:41:25-04:00","created_at":"2025-10-05T08:41:23-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00","vendor":"Prakash Books","product_type":"Books","tags":["Daisy Rockwell (Translator)","Khadija Mastur (Author)","new english book","new release","penguin india","prakash books"],"variants":[{"id":48824970969325,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":null,"requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"price":"359.00","grams":300,"compare_at_price":"370.00","position":1,"product_id":9129907880173,"created_at":"2025-10-05T08:41:23-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00"}],"images":[{"id":45179383415021,"created_at":"2025-10-05T08:41:23-04:00","position":1,"updated_at":"2025-10-05T08:41:24-04:00","product_id":9129907880173,"variant_ids":[],"src":"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0355/1415/5141/files/2mmrqW10I5.jpg?v=1759668084","width":283,"height":425}],"options":[{"name":"Title","position":1,"values":["Default Title"]}]},{"id":9129872752877,"title":"A Village Divided","handle":"a-village-divided","body_html":"Rahi Masoom Rezas honest and controversial novel unfolds during the latter years of the Raj and the first decade of Independence and portrays the rival halves of a zamindar family, their loves, fights and litigations. 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Out of this rebellious streak, and fuelled by the burning restlessness of his imagination, he produced a powerful body of work that continues to challenge complacency and demand attention. More than half a century after his death at the age of forty-three in Lahore, he remains anathema to the establishment. Saadat Hasan Manto wanted to be remembered as the greatest short-story writer ever; as his epitaph would have it, his only competitor is God. Indeed, he is best known for his Partition stories, where he lays bare the absurdity of the religious divide that would forever unhinge the lives of two nations. No other writer has been able to capture the devastation of Partition as Manto has. But, as this exhaustive anthology shows, Manto’s best work sweeps across genres and states of mind. 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A bohemian and an iconoclast, the figure of Saadat Hasan Manto looms large over the literature of the Indian subcontinent. We know of his stories on the horrors of Partition and the struggles of prostitutes. But neither Partition nor prostitution gave birth to the genius of Manto. They only furnished him with an occasion to reveal the truth of the human condition.
My Name Is Radha is a path-breaking edition of stories which delves deep into Manto’s creative world and refreshingly brings into focus Manto the writer rather than Manto the commentator. Muhammad Umar Memon’s inspired selection of Manto’s best-known stories along with those less talked about and his precise and elegant translation showcase an astonishing writer being true to his calling.

‘The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story’ Salman Rushdie.

‘An errant genius’ The Hindu","published_at":"2025-10-05T07:27:27-04:00","created_at":"2025-10-05T07:27:25-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00","vendor":"Prakash Books","product_type":"Books","tags":["mew english book","new release","penguin india","prakash books","saadat hasan manto","Saadat Hasan Manto (Author) Muhammad Umar Memon (Translator)"],"variants":[{"id":48824806211821,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":null,"requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"price":"579.00","grams":400,"compare_at_price":"599.00","position":1,"product_id":9129853649133,"created_at":"2025-10-05T07:27:25-04:00","updated_at":"2025-10-07T11:54:07-04:00"}],"images":[{"id":45178815086829,"created_at":"2025-10-05T07:27:25-04:00","position":1,"updated_at":"2025-10-05T07:27:27-04:00","product_id":9129853649133,"variant_ids":[],"src":"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0355/1415/5141/files/V7Om2B1Jud.jpg?v=1759663647","width":266,"height":425}],"options":[{"name":"Title","position":1,"values":["Default Title"]}]}],"currency":{"token":"f438293635133c3a4a1a00b282253bfc","note":null,"attributes":{},"original_total_price":0,"total_price":0,"total_discount":0,"total_weight":0,"item_count":0,"items":[],"requires_shipping":false,"currency":"INR","items_subtotal_price":0,"cart_level_discount_applications":[],"discount_codes":[]}}

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