Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955) needs no introduction. One of the greatest stars of Urdu literature Manto published over twenty collections of short stories in a literary career spanning almost two decades. Several of these have been adapted into films and plays that have won a multitude of awards and his stories about the 1947 Partition remain some of the best accounts ever written on the catastrophic event.This book is the first of a three-volume series which will contain all of Saadat Hasan Ma