Bombay Stories

Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad’s inspired new translations reaffirm the timelessness of Manto’s prose and revitalize it for a new generation of English-language readers.

Times Literary Supplement

Here was a writer whose excellence and vision consumed his life… The writer proves that he knows the truth better than God. Reading Manto is like trying to understand an entire civilization in two lines. He spoke too much in few words, which invariably made the words sharp enough to pierce through our hearts.

Culture Trip

Manto's irony and humanity raises him on par with Gogol

Anita Desai, Spectator

One of the most gifted short-story writers produced by the sub-continent

Guardian

The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story

Salman Rushdie, Observer