A Life in Words: Memoirs

A Life in Words: Memoirs
ISBN-10
8184759401
ISBN-13
9788184759402
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2013-07-15
Publisher
Penguin UK
Author
Ismat Chugtai

Description

A Life in Words, the first complete translation of Ismat Chughtais celebrated memoir Kaghazi hai Pairahan, provides a delightful account of several crucial years of her life. Alongside 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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