Lifting the Veil Lifting the Veil
Penguin Women Writers

Lifting the Veil

Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie

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'Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern' Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction

Lifting the Veil
is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories celebrate life in all its complexities: from a woman who refuses marriage to a man she loves to preserve her freedom, to a Hindu and a Muslim teenager pulled apart by societal pressures, to eye-opening personal accounts of the charges of obscenity the author faced in court for stories found in this book.

Wickedly funny and unflinchingly honest, Lifting the Veil explores the power of female sexuality while slyly mocking the subtle tyrannies of middle-class life. In 1940s India, an unlikely setting for female rebellion, Ismat Chughtai was a rare and radical storyteller born years ahead of her time.

'Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives' Huffington Post

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
1 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
196
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SIZE
3.4
MB

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