The Deccan Sun: Essays And StoriesThe Urdu writer, Zeenath Sajida dominated the literary and intellectual circles of Hyderabad for half a century. Often compared with Ismat Chughtai for her boldness, defiance and verbal craft, Zeenath wrote a number of popular short stories. But she was best known for her humorous khaake (pen portraits) and inshaaiye (light sketches). Yet, her work has rarely been curated and translated for an English reader. Nazia Akhtars nuanced translation brings

from financial and work struggles to insight into how cancer can change the parent-child relationship irrevocably

out of a storm of danger

but in fact she was just a young girl fearful but determined to create a better future for her country

and several tax-brackets poorer

maintain and achieve a tidy home

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Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man

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Carly is a young person caring for her mother who has Multiple Sclerosis and depression

intrigued both the historian and the mystery lover in me' Kara Owens CMG CVO

her mother a classicist now more concerned with trying to keep track of spiralling chaotic family life than the declining of verbs

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