KARACHI, June 18: The Oxford University Press Pakistan announced here on Tuesday the publication of the English translation of Asad Mohammed Khan’s short stories.
Titled “The Harvest of Anger and Other Stories”, these stories, originally written in Urdu and translated into English by Aquila Ismail, are about ordinary people trying to cope with events which have thrown their daily lives out of synch, but which shows his protagonists rise above their circumstances by not giving up.
The 12 short stories in this volume have been selected with a view to presenting to the reader the entire range of characters, settings and culture that the writer evokes in his work and which ultimately forms the essence of life in a cosmopolitan city.
AMK is a Karachi-based writer who started his career as a poet, but later on chose the short story as his medium of expression.
Apart from Ghusse Ki Nayee Fasal from which most of the stories included in this collection have been taken, he has published several collections of short stories and poems.
His stories deal mainly with urban issues and the theme of death permeates almost every story. — APP
