Bitter Gourd & Other Stories - Hardcover

Abbasi, Talat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195796241 ISBN 13: 9780195796247

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Synopsis

Talat Abbasi is one of the best-known fiction writers in English writing about the Pakistani experience. This is a collection of seventeen short stories that explore the worlds of Pakistanis in Karachi and its environs, and of Pakistanis in New York. Collectively the stories portray each strata of contemporary Pakistani society, from the privileged upper classes to servants.

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About the Author

Talat Abbasi comes from Karachi. She was educated at St. Joseph's Convent High School, Karachi, Kinnaird College, Lahore, and the London School of Economics. She worked briefly as a research officer at the National Institute of Public Administration, Karachi. In 1978 she moved to New York with her two children. Since then she has worked at the United Nations Population Fund, specializing in issues of population and gender. She regularly visits Pakistan, especially her hometown of Karachi. Her short stories have been published in numerous literary journals, mostly in the US, and also in France and India, broadcast on the BBC Worl Service Short Story Programme, included in anthologies and in textbooks for college students in the US.

Review

"Abbasi's uncanny eye for psychic complexities, aberration, and betrayal make these stories far richer and penetrating than mere satire. Beautifully written and choreographed, Bitter Gourd and Other Stories will certainly have a lasting impact on contemporary South Asian literature."--Sara Suleri Goodyear, Professor of English, Yale University "Abbasi's uncanny eye for psychic complexities, aberration, and betrayal make these stories far richer and penetrating than mere satire. Beautifully written and choreographed, Bitter Gourd and Other Stories will certainly have a lasting impact on contemporary South Asian literature."--Sara SuleriGoodyear, Professor of English, Yale University "Abbasi's uncanny eye for psychic complexities, aberration, and betrayal make these stories far richer and penetrating than mere satire. Beautifully written and choreographed, Bitter Gourd and Other Stories will certainly have a lasting impact on contemporary South Asian literature."--Sara Suleri Goodyear, Professor of English, Yale University "Abbasi's uncanny eye for psychic complexities, aberration, and betrayal make these stories far richer and penetrating than mere satire. Beautifully written and choreographed, Bitter Gourd and Other Stories will certainly have a lasting impact on contemporary South Asian literature."--Sara SuleriGoodyear, Professor of English, Yale University

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0195796241
• ISBN 13: 9780195796247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172