A life in words : memoirs / Ismat Chugtai; translated from the original Urdu Kaghazi Hai Pairahan by M. Asaduddin.

By:

Chugtai, Ismat [author]

Contributor(s):

Asaduddin, M [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Urdu Publication details: Gurugram : Penguin, 2013.ISBN:

9780143420316

Other title:

Kaghazi Hai Pairahan

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Summary: "A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtai's celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Along side vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. Chughtai is searingly honest about her fight to get an education and the struggle to find her own voice as a writer. The result is a compellingly readable memoir by one of the most significant Urdu writers of all time."--

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	891.4393 CH-L (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		151539

"A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtai's celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Along side vivid descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large Muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century. Chughtai is searingly honest about her fight to get an education and the struggle to find her own voice as a writer. The result is a compellingly readable memoir by one of the most significant Urdu writers of all time."--

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