Read it!
This I believe was recommended in the paper and I was lucky enough to find it in the bookstore. With such an eye-catching title, I had to indulge.
Urdu literature has it's own unique flavor the same way that other areas do. I know I repeat this a lot, but it's something that continually tickles my fancy. The Monkey's Wound is a collection of short stories from Urdu Literature. This is the first work from Hajra Masroor I've read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The stories are women-centric. They are relateable to most women (I feel) and portray an average life that can be stretched in a few different ways to include a lot of people. I won't go into each short story, but there is an art to developing a collection of stories. Tahira Naqvi has done a wonderful job translating this work and I'm not sure who decided what would go into this collection of stories, but they fit together beautifully. It's not a short book, but well worth the time investment.
Read it!
~Becky~
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