Saadat Hasan Manto

Praise for Bombay Stories

Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad’s inspired new translations reaffirm the timelessness of Manto’s prose and revitalize it for a new generation of English-language readers.

Times Literary Supplement

Here was a writer whose excellence and vision consumed his life… The writer proves that he knows the truth better than God. Reading Manto is like trying to understand an entire civilization in two lines. He spoke to ...

Culture Trip

The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story

Salman Rushdie, Observer

Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad’s inspired new translations reaffirm the timelessness of Manto’s prose and revitalize it for a new generation of English-language readers.

Times Literary Supplement

Here was a writer whose excellence and vision consumed his life… The writer proves that he knows the truth better than God. Reading Manto is like trying to understand an entire civilization in two lines. He spoke to ...

Culture Trip

The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story

Salman Rushdie, Observer

Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad’s inspired new translations reaffirm the timelessness of Manto’s prose and revitalize it for a new generation of English-language readers.

Times Literary Supplement

Here was a writer whose excellence and vision consumed his life… The writer proves that he knows the truth better than God. Reading Manto is like trying to understand an entire civilization in two lines. He spoke to ...

Culture Trip

The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story

Salman Rushdie, Observer