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title: "Saadat Hasan MantoBombay Stories (Vintage International)"
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# Saadat Hasan MantoBombay Stories (Vintage International)

**Brand:** saadat hasan manto
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## Customer Reviews

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    Stories of the Bombay demimonde before the war.
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2014*

Sometimes compared to F Scott Fitzgerald, Saadat Manto certainly led a rather dissipated life and wrote for the movies, but for the most part there the similarity ends. Manto writes short stories that read like scripts for radio or movies of which he wrote quite a few, probably more than he did regular fiction. The Bombay Stories were written towards the end of his short life,  after he moved to Lahore and some 15 years after he lived in Bombay. The feel of these stories seems to me to have more in common with Kerouac or even Burroughs than Fitzgerald.  Although they are principally concerned with lives  of gangsters, pimps, prostitutes and the desperately poor the stories are not sentimental, nor is he slumming and in this respect they put me in mind of Katherine Boo's magnificent Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

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    India as it was, and is.
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 2, 2014*

I didn't realize until I started to read this wonderful collection that it was not short stories as such, but wonderful autobiographical sketches of the author's time in Bombay.  His interactions with gangsters, prostitutes, film industry personnel, etc. were so vivid that I almost felt as if I had been introduced to those individuals myself.  The first book of Manto that I read was Mottled Dawn, which were sketches of partition, and his writing is so very colorful that I was pleased to read this collection which shows the real India.

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    Insights into Pre-WW2 Indian Street Life
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2014*

Great characterizations and insights of Manto and those around him in Pre-War Bombay.  There is a constant comparison of the characters' superficial behaviour against their true motivations story after story.

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