A Life in Words: Memoirs: Ismat Chughtai

Presented along with the vivid and high-energy descriptions of her childhood years are the conflicted experiences of growing up in a large muslim family during the early decades of the twentieth century we get an intimate view of a writers fierce struggle to find her own voice and depict with passion and precision the visible and subtle tyrannies of contemporary society a life in words is a searingly honest and compellingly readable memoir of the life of one of the most significant urdu writers of all time