Grieving for Pigeons : Twelve Stories of Lahore (Revised Edition)

• Autore: Ahmad Zubair
• Pubblicazione: Athabasca : , : Athabasca University Press, , 2023; ©2024
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 pages)
• Disciplina: 891.4/2372
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• Soggetto non controllato: Pakistan, Lahore, Punjabi, short stories, translation, Partition, Muslim, Shahmuki, Gurmukhi, India, colonialism, Urdu, Indian Punjab
• Altri autori: MurphyAnne
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- GRIEVING for PIGEONS -- Bajwa Has Nothing More to Say Now -- Dead Man’s Float -- Pigeons, Ledges, and Streets -- He Has Left, and Won’t Be Back -- The Beak of the Green Parrot, Submerged in the River -- Sweater -- Unstory -- The Estranged City -- The Silence of Saints -- Half Maghar Moon -- The Wall of Water
• Sommario/riassunto: In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad evokes the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.
• Titolo autorizzato: Grieving for Pigeons
• ISBN: 1-77199-432-0; 1-77199-433-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910917173903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mingling Voices Series