Atish Paray

Atish Paray (Urdu: آتش پارے, lit.'Nuggets of Fire') is a collection of short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto.

Atish Paray
AuthorSadat Hasan Manto
Original titleAtish Paray
CountryBritish India
LanguageUrdu
PublisherUrdu Bookstall (Lahore)[1]
Publication date
1936 (first edition)
Media typePrint

Background

Atish Paray subtitled “a collection of several thought-provoking stories” was published in 1936 while Manto was living in Amritsar.[2] Two stories from this collection Tamasha - Manto's debut story followed by Taqat Ka Imtehan first appeared in a local weekly Khalq (Creation) by Abdul Bari Alig from Amritsar. The collection was however published from Lahore and Manto dedicated this collection to his late father.[2]

Content

There are eight stories in this collection:[1]

Notes

  1. first published in the Aligarh Magazine in March 1935[3]
  2. It was later included in Manto Ke Afsanay under the title Qasim with a slight change in the ending[4]
  3. also included in his prior collection Rusi Afsanay (Russian Stories)[5]
  4. first published under a pseudonym in Abdul Bari Alig’s Urdu newspaper Khalq (Creation)[6] and also included in his prior collection Rusi Afsanay (Russian Stories)[5]
  5. It was included in Manto Ke Afsanay[4]

References

  1. Flemming 1985b, p. 152.
  2. Flemming 1985, p. 38.
  3. Flemming 1985, p. 7.
  4. Flemming 1985, p. 42.
  5. Flemming 1985, p. 36.
  6. Flemming 1985, p. 6.

Cited sources

  • Flemming, Leslie A. (1985). Another Lonely Voice: The Life and Works of Saadat Hassan Manto. Vanguard Books.
  • Flemming, Leslie A. (1985b). "Manto Bibliography". Journal of South Asian Literature. 20 (2): 152–160. ISSN 0091-5637. JSTOR 40872787.
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