Bitter Fruit: The Very Best of Saadat Hasan Manto (Paperback)

INTRODUCTION
This collection brings together in English translation Saadat Hasan Manto's best works. It includes stories from several of my collections published since 1987 in London, New York, New Delhi and Lahore, and twenty or so stories that I had left out for one reason or another and which have now been translated for this volume. No other Urdu writer's work has been so extensively translated into English as that of Manto, though the quality of some translations has tended to be less than satisfactory. A collection of his stories has been published in a Japanese translation; and here and there in anthologies, the odd Manto story, almost always his classic 1947 tale 'Toba Tek Singh', continues to appear. Manto has also been translated into many languages spoken in the subcontinent.