PEG: Toba Tek Singh: Stories  (English, Paperback, Manto Sa'adat Hasan)

Toba Tek Singh Stories is a delightful collection of Manto’s short stories, published as a part of the Penguin Evergreens series.

Summary of the Book

Toba Tek Singh Stories presents you some of the best short stories written by the master short-story writer Saadat Hasan Manto. The titles included in this collection are A Woman's Life, A Wet Afternoon, The Dog of Tithwal, Colder than Ice, The Gift, An Old-fashioned Man, Bitter Harvest, Toba Tek Singh, Odour, A Tale of 1947, A Woman for All Seasons, The Girl from Delhi, Green Sandals, The Dutiful Daughter, and The Price of Freedom.

About Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto was mostly famous for his short stories. He was born in Punjab’s Ludhiana district in the year 1912. He spent most of his childhood in Amritsar and finished his schooling there. Manto was always keenly interested in Western literature. He translated a few works of writers like Anton Chekhov, Victor Hugo, and Oscar Wilde into Urdu. While he was doing his graduation at the Aligarh Muslim University, he joined the Indian Progressive Writers Association, which gave an encouragement to his passion of writing. Manto published his first collection of Urdu short stories in 1936. He then worked as an editor for a film magazine for a few years in Bombay, during which time he got acquainted with a many film personalities. Manto moved to Lahore after the Partition and eventually became disturbed by financial woes. He took to consuming inexpensive alcohol, and passed away due to liver cirrhosis in the year 1955. Some of his most notable books and are Naked Voices Stories & Sketches, Stars From Another Sky, Mottled Dawn, For Freedom's Sake: Selected Stories and Sketches, and Partition: Sketches and Stories.