- Published: 15 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241346433
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $19.99
Lifting the Veil
Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie
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- Published: 15 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241346433
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $19.99
Enlightened, bold, iconoclastic, progressive and feminist... Chughtai's style makes reading a delight
Dawn
One of the foremost Urdu writers of the 20th century, Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives
Huffington Post
Chughtai's prose is supple, energetic, argumentative, funny, caustic, and colloquial. But what really distinguishes her from her peers is a bluntness that is often brutal, and a sarcasm that is always biting. This is high-voltage writing, it can be as vituperative as it is incisive, as polemical as it is profound.
India Today
Her marvellous skill with language and storytelling has resulted in the creation of some of the most powerful women characters in world literature
The Hindu
Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern
Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction
Ismat Chughtai's work had a seminal impact on me... [her] rebellious life I carry about with me like a talisman
Kishwar Desai, author of 'Origins of Love'
A writer who was constantly challenging accepted notions of morality and urging her readers to examine a woman's place in society
Indian Express
