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      Bitter Gourd and Other Stories

      by Talat Abbasi
      Published
      Dec 2001
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      172
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      Talat Abbasi is one of the best-known fiction writers in English writing about the Pakistani experience. This is a collection of seventeen short stories that explore the worlds of Pakistanis in Karachi and its environs, and of Pakistanis in New York. Collectively the stories portray each strata of contemporary Pakistani society, from the privileged upper classes to servants.

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      Dec 2001 Oxford University Press (UK) ISBN13 9780195796247 ISBN10 0195796241
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