Description
In a world where personal desire collides with inherited duty, this collection of stories by Attia Hosain follows lives shaped by arranged marriage, political idealism, and the uneasy pull of Western influence. From a young servant girl drawn into a marriage shadowed by her husband’s opium habit to an earnest political worker confronting the hard edges of disillusionment, the narratives trace how love, ambition, and conscience are tested by the realities of power and culture. Hosain’s sharp, compassionate prose illuminates themes of identity, moral compromise, and the search for dignity amid social constraint. With her distinctive voice—rooted in Urdu sensibility yet written in English—she captures the shifting worlds of postcolonial life, where change arrives not as a clean break, but as a struggle to survive one’s own contradictions.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 1989
202 pages
ISBN: 0140161929
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Details
First Published
1953
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Phoenix Fled by Attia Hosain.