Saadat Hasan Manto conjures the vitality of the streets of Bombay- its prostitutes, pimps, artists, gangsters, rickshaw drivers, and strays. He probes the pain and bewilderment of the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs ripped apart by the India-Pakistan Partition. Manto is best known for his merciless examination of the violence, horror, and reverberations from the Partition: a stray dog is caught in the crossfire on the threshold of Pakistan and India, friendly neighbors turned enemy soldiers pause for tea together in a momentary cease-fire. Manto shines an incandescent light on human truth with an unflinching a preface by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Vijay Seshadri, this comprehensive collection 1S essential reading for our current moment where divisiveness erupts into violence everywhere we turn.