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‘Manto’s irony and humanity raise him on par with Gogol’ —Anita Desai, The Spectator

Writing with great feeling and empathy about the fallen and the rejects of society, Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–55) the supreme humanist shows how the essential goodness of people does not die even in the face of unimaginable suffering.