Saadat Hasan Manto (1912?1955)\n needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature, Manto\n published over twenty collections of short stories in a literary career\n spanning almost two decades. Several of these have been adapted into films and\n plays that have won a multitude of awards and his stories about the 1947\n Partition remain some of the best accounts ever written on the catastrophic\n event.\n \n This book is the first of a three-volume series which will contain all of\n Saadat Hasan Manto?s 255 known stories translated into English for the very\n first time. Volume I collects fifty-four stories and two essays written by\n Manto about his time in Bombay and Poona in colonial India. The anthology\n includes well-known stories like ?Mummy? and ?Janki?, which provide rare\n insights into the Poona film industry; the fascinating story of ?Babu\n Gopinath?; and ?My Marriage? and ?My Sahib?, two essays that read almost like\n stories. These meticulous translations by award-winning writer and translator\n Nasreen Rehman, distil the aura that Manto creates of a time, a place, and a\n moment.