Hasan Shah
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- 21
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- #570,576
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- 4.0
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- 1
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If you appreciate books like Ruswa's Umrao Jan Ada and Chattopadhyay's Devdas, this might be a book for you.
However, it seems like the English translation is a severly amputated version of the Persian original... so incredibly disappointing! Hyder who translated the English version based it on the first edition of the Urdu translation of the Persian original, and for some !"#%&? reason she decided to leave out some of the most important and interesting parts of the story, like for example most of the love letters and the ghazals that make up a major part of the dialogue between the two lovers... incredibly insensitive of her, what an unforgivable crime! :( Unfortunately, she also chose to keep the cynical, sarcastic and irrelevant comments of the Urdu translator Kasmandavi...
The afterword has some interesting comments that inspires further reading.… (mer)