Admirable intention, laid to waste courtesy some appalling translation
Reads well in translation but those who’ve read the original will miss the typical colloquialisms and the turns of phrase in Ismat’s writings.
It is a book to buy, read, keep and most importantly to gift to your children
In Chughtai’s memoirs words come pell-mell, out of her consciousness. Her demanding prose is translated well.
In Outlook this week, a diary on Hagia Sophia
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