Women's Courtyard

Name: Women's Courtyard
SKU: 9780143138068
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Author: Khadija Mastur
ISBN: 9780143138068

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvKhadija Mastur

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A feminist classic of Partition literature translated by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy RockwellSet in the turbulent decade of the 1940s, The Women's Courtyard provides an inverted perspective on the Partition. Mastur’s novel gives expression to the preoccupations of the women in the courtyard, fighting different battles with loud voices. The novel follows a Muslim girl, Aliya, and her family, about and around the climax of the Independence struggle. While the national struggle rages on the street, Aliya, Aunty and the residents of the courtyard are tethered hopelessly to their own problems of life and death. The Women’s Courtyard is an experience in suffocation. Within the strict religious and social framework of a rigid Muslim family, there is a purdah between Aliya and the rest of the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-02
Mått128 x 195 x 14 mm
Vikt219 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePenguin Publishing Group
Antal sidor320
FörlagPenguin Books Ltd
MedarbetareKamila Shamsie
ISBN9780143138068
ÖversättareDaisy Rockwell

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Khadija Mastur (Author) Khadija Mastur (1927-82) was a renowned and award-winning Urdu writer from Pakistan, famous for her novels and short stories. She is best remembered for her novel Aangan, published in Penguin Classics as The Women's Courtyard.Kamila Shamsie (Foreword By) Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages. Her novels include Home Fire (2018) which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was long listed for the Man Booker Prize, Burnt Shadows which won the Premio Boccaccio in Italy, and A God in Every Stone which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award. She grew up in Karachi, has an MFA from the University of Manchester in Amherst, and now lives in London.Daisy Rockwell (Translator) Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She is a recipient of the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award and her translations have been honored with The International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Her novel Alice Sees Ghosts and Mixed Metaphors, her collection of poems about translation, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury India, and her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press (UK) in 2027.

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