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Title:

Hoops of fire : fifty years of fiction by Pakistani women / edited by Aamer Hussein ; [translated by Yasmin Hameed ... et al.].

Publisher:

Saqi Books,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

175 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Urdu fiction--20th century--Translations into English.
Urdu fiction--Women authors.
Urdu fiction--Pakistan.
Pakistan--Social life and customs.--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Hussein, Aamer.

Contents:

Foreword / by Aamer Hussein -- Voyages of sleep / Azra Abbas -- When the walls weep / Altaf Fatima -- Godfather / Khadija Mastoor -- And he had an accident / Hijab Imtiaz Ali -- The awakening / Mumtaz Shirin -- Descent / Mumtaz Shirin -- The inferno / Razia Fasih Ahmed -- Some misaddressed letters / Fahmida Riaz -- Exile / Jamila Hashmi -- Parbati / Farkhanda Lodhi -- The sin of innocence / Umme Umara -- Hoops of fire / Khalida Husain.

ISBN:

9780863560392 (pbk.)
0863560393 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41442741

LCCN:

99219956

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)