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Author : ISMAT CHUGHTAI
ISBN No : 9789385606250
Language : English
Categories : FICTION
Publisher : WOMEN UNLIMITED
“This is the story of those seventy-two people who took a stand against imperialism inorder to defend human rights,” wrote Chughtai in her Preface to the book,adding, “Today, too, when a Yazid raises his head in some part of the world, Husain steps forward and crushes him.” The inimitable Chughtai takes her readers by surprise in this, her last, novel, adapting the complex Islamic account of the sorrow and suffering of Husain’s family in Karbala and making it her own by transforming the sublime, revered individuals into real people. Her controversial, fictionalised rendering humanises the tragic encounters on the battlefield, immortalising the sacrifice of Imam Husain and his family in prose that has the same lyrical force as her original inspiration, Anis’ marsiyas.