Atish Paray

Atish Paray
AuthorSadat Hasan Manto
Original titleAtish Paray
LanguageUrdu
PublisherUrdu Bookstall (Lahore)
Publication date1936 (first edition)
Publication placeBritish India
Media typePrint

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

Background

Atish Paray subtitled “a collection of several thought-provoking stories” was published in 1936 from Lahore, while Manto was living in Amritsar. 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. Manto dedicated this collection to his late father.

Content

There are eight stories in this collection:

Notes

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

References

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

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