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The Seventh Door and Other Stories / Intizar Husain.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780894108211
  • 9781685851705
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- The Seventh Door -- The Back Room -- A Stranded Railroad Car -- An Unwritten Epic -- The Stairway -- Toward His Fire -- Comrades -- The Shadow -- The Legs -- The Yellow Cur -- The Lost Ones -- Metamorphosis -- The Last Man -- The Prisoner(s) -- The Turtles -- Glossary -- Notes on the Translators -- About the Book
Summary: These powerful stories were written between 1947, when Pakistan was created, and 1971, when it was fragmented by the creation of Bangladesh as an independent nation. Steeped in an unmistakable Shi’ite ambiance, they also draw freely on memoirs and memories, dreams and visions, Middle Eastern oral traditions, and Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781685851705

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- The Seventh Door -- The Back Room -- A Stranded Railroad Car -- An Unwritten Epic -- The Stairway -- Toward His Fire -- Comrades -- The Shadow -- The Legs -- The Yellow Cur -- The Lost Ones -- Metamorphosis -- The Last Man -- The Prisoner(s) -- The Turtles -- Glossary -- Notes on the Translators -- About the Book

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These powerful stories were written between 1947, when Pakistan was created, and 1971, when it was fragmented by the creation of Bangladesh as an independent nation. Steeped in an unmistakable Shi’ite ambiance, they also draw freely on memoirs and memories, dreams and visions, Middle Eastern oral traditions, and Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)