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Green Sandals

Green Sandals

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Saadat Hasan Manto
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I don’t think I can put up with you any more. Please divorce me.’

With this begins yet another argument between a woman and her husband. As is the case with most disputes, it starts off with one thing but soon ends up focusing on something entirely different.

One can always make out the relationship two people share from the arguments they have. As a fly on the wall, observing this heated exchange between a man and his wife is as fascinating as it is revealing.

A story told entirely through dialogue, Green Sandals has Manto’s genius shining through every insult—and affectation—that the couple throws at one another. Read on.

Imprint: Penguin

Published: Jan/2018

Length : 15 Pages

MRP : ₹15.00

Green Sandals

(Penguin Petit)

Saadat Hasan Manto

I don’t think I can put up with you any more. Please divorce me.’

With this begins yet another argument between a woman and her husband. As is the case with most disputes, it starts off with one thing but soon ends up focusing on something entirely different.

One can always make out the relationship two people share from the arguments they have. As a fly on the wall, observing this heated exchange between a man and his wife is as fascinating as it is revealing.

A story told entirely through dialogue, Green Sandals has Manto’s genius shining through every insult—and affectation—that the couple throws at one another. Read on.

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Paperback / Hardback
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Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto has been called the greatest short story writer of the Indian subcontinent. He was born in 1912 in Punjab and went on to become a radio and film-script writer, journalist, and short story writer. His stories were highly controversial and he was tried for obscenity six times during his career. After Partition, Manto moved to Lahore with his wife and three daughters. He died there in 1955.

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