The Gatekeeper's Wife
2014
First Published
3.22
Average Rating
188
Number of Pages
Rukhsana Ahmad has been writing short stories since the mid 1980s, and had a loyal readership at home and abroad long before the current boom in Pakistani fiction. Though she is perhaps best known for her plays and her pioneering translations, there s a lingering suspicion among her admirers that fiction —- and particularly short fiction —- is her first love. Varied in setting, style and length, ranging in genre from the intimacy of domestic realism to the bizarre, experimental and fantastic, these stories bear witness to our changing times. This first and generous collection is worth the long wait. —- AAMER HUSSEIN What a find Ahmad is! She writes about women s legacy of grief without self-pity and if there is anger, it surfaces as wit. FAY WELDON, Mail on Sunday Rukhsana Ahmad is a magnificent writer...I adored her short stories... Bapsi Sidhwa
Avg Rating
3.22
Number of Ratings
49
5 STARS
16%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
41%
2 STARS
8%
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Author
Rukhsana Ahmad
Author · 3 books
Rukhsana Ahmad has written and adapted several plays for the stage and radio, achieving distinction in both. Her play River on Fire was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn International Prize. Her first novel, The Hope Chest, was published by Virago. We Sinful Women, her pioneering translation of Urdu feminist poetry, is widely acclaimed. Rukhsana is a co-founder of Kali Theatre Company, London. She has served as a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Marys, University of London. The Gatekeepers Wife and other stories, is an anthology of her short fiction.
