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Collected Stories
طاؤس چمن کی مینا · Taoos Chaman Ki Maina
Naiyer Masud (نیر مسعود, born 1936)
Translated by Muhammad Umar Memon
English editions
In EnglishCollected Stories
Penguin Books India · India · 2015 · 662 pages
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These Urdu stories keep returning to Lucknow, to its splendour and its humiliation, and to the relics a lost era leaves behind, following how things change and decline. The best known, set in the 1850s, follows Kale Khan, a poor man grieving his wife, who finds work at Wajid Ali Shah's royal garden, where talking mynas live in a vast cage. Naming one bird after his small daughter Falak Ara, he slowly finds his way back to her.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 224 pages in the original
- Set in
- India
- First published
- 1998 by Naiyer Masud
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
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9780670088454 (Penguin Books India, India)