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![]() No summary of Basti can do justice to its originality, but in brief, the story begins pre-1947 with a vision of a small-town childhood marked by harmony - not only between Hindu and Muslim, of course, but also between human beings and the natural world they inhabit. "Arguably the finest novel on Partition," according to a critic in The Hindu, the book arrives in an English translation by Columbia University South Asian scholar Frances Pritchett that has been issued twice in India and now appears courtesy of New York Review Books. (Karachi Literature Festival/Flickr)Īnglophone fans of South Asian literature get an end-of-year bonanza this week when Intizar Husain's 1979 Urdu novel Basti, regarded as a contemporary classic among readers of Urdu, receives its belated first American publication. L: New NYRB edition of "Basti" by Intizar Husain R: Husain at the Karachi Literature Festival on February 5, 2011.
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