Author: Nirupama Dutt
Editor(s): Nirupama Dutt
Publisher: Unistar
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 257
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186898301
Description
Half the Sky encases some of the best fiction written by women writers of Pakistan , a country that is only some fifty-seven years young, have not lagged behind as far as literature goes. In this volume one sees the versatility with which women writers have handled the dexterous task of penning short fiction. These are stories by women who have had the courage to break the silence of the centuries and tell their won stories in their own words.
In fact this volume marks the coming of age of a multi-lingual identity of the woman writer in Pakistan. The collection includes stories written in Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi and Seraeki. With themes ranging from the personal to the political and regional to the universal, the anthology makes for good reading by famous writers like Bapsi Sidhwa, Khadija Mastoor, Farkhanda Lodhi, Zahida Hena and other who rightfully claimed their share of the sky.
Contents
THE LOST CHILDHOOD
Hajra Masroor
Munni Bibi at the Fair
Parveen Malik
The Magic Flower
Musarrat Kalanchvi
The Poison of Loneliness
Zaitoon Bano
Dilshada
Nilofar Iqbal
The Coach
CLOUDS OF SORROW
Farkhanda Lodhi
The Poor Thing
Firdous Haider
The Cow
Neelam Ahmed Bashir
A Manly Act
Rukhsana Ahmed
The Spell and the Ever-Changing Moon
LOVE AND LONGING
Hijab Imtiaz Ali
And he had an Accident
Mumtaz Shirin
The Last Desent
Yasmin Marri
The Poison of The Blue Rose
Atiya Syed
The Autumn Bud
VICTIMS OF HISTORY
Khadija Mastoor
Farewell to the Bride
Jamila Hashmi
Banishment
Azra Asghar
Tumbleweed
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Altaf Fatima
The Naked Hens
Akhtar Jamal
The Chief Guest
Mehtab Mehboob
The Web
Razia Fasih Ahmed
Paper is Money
MATTER OF FAITH
Bano Qudsia
Many Faces of Truth
Bapsi Sidhwa
The Trouble-Easers
Afzal Tauseef
Testimony
VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE
Zahida Hena
To be or not to be
Noor-ul-Huda Shah
The Valley of Doom
Khalida Hussain
Millipede
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GLOSSARY
CONTRIBUTORS