What Will You Give for This Beauty (PB)

‘Natiq’s short stories are some of the genre’s finest in contemporary Urdu literature’—Musharraf Ali Farooqi Possessed of dark irony and a searing moral vision, What Will You Give for This Beauty? brings vividly alive the world of the Punjab countryside, with its undercurrent of violence and poverty, through feuds and feasts, hunts and marriages, mobs and floods, elopements and gossip. Acrobats, holy men, thieves, peasants, landowners, masons and courtesans populate the stories of this virtuoso debut collection by Ali Akbar Natiq, a storyteller of exceptional talent and manifest power. Read more