Description
A collection of sharply observed short fiction, this volume gathers Ismat Chughtai’s stories around the intimate pressures of everyday life—where family bonds, social expectations, and private desires collide. Across its narratives, characters navigate love, loss, and moral compromise, often revealing how power operates quietly through custom, gender roles, and reputation. The title story’s presence signals Chughtai’s gift for turning domestic objects and ordinary moments into charged symbols of memory and meaning. With her incisive, unsentimental style and fearless attention to the lives of women, these stories offer both emotional immediacy and a lasting critique of the society that shapes them.
Available Editions
paperback
Kali for Women
Published Jan 1, 1990
224 pages
ISBN: 9788185107103
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Details
First Published
1999
Language
eng
Translation
From: urd
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Quilt and Other Stories by Ismat Chughtai.