- Published: 15 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241346440
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 196
Lifting the Veil
Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie
- Published: 15 February 2018
- ISBN: 9780241346440
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 196
A writer who was constantly challenging accepted notions of morality and urging her readers to examine a woman's place in society
Indian Express
Chughtai's prose is supple, energetic, argumentative, funny, caustic, and colloquial. But what really distinguishes her from her peers is a bluntness that is often brutal, and a sarcasm that is always biting. This is high-voltage writing, it can be as vituperative as it is incisive, as polemical as it is profound.
India Today
Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern
Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction
Enlightened, bold, iconoclastic, progressive and feminist... Chughtai's style makes reading a delight
Dawn
Her marvellous skill with language and storytelling has resulted in the creation of some of the most powerful women characters in world literature
The Hindu
Ismat Chughtai's work had a seminal impact on me... [her] rebellious life I carry about with me like a talisman
Kishwar Desai, author of 'Origins of Love'
One of the foremost Urdu writers of the 20th century, Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives
Huffington Post