So That You Can Know Me: An Anthology of Pakistani Women Writers (Garnet World Fiction Series)

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Ghulam Mohammad, successful hotelier and shop owner, wants to sell up and buy a church - a derelict church in a run-down corner of Birmingham - and convert it into a mosque. But his son has other plans. With an eye on his temporal rather than spiritual riches, he will stop at nothing to protect his inheritance. This collection of seventeen short stories by Pakistani women covers a wide range of subjects, from the stream-of-consciousness that is 'Millipede' recounting a man's descent into madness as his obsession that he has become infected by insects grows to the violence shown by a father to his son when he beats him to within an inch of his life in 'The Coach'. The stories have a diversity that reflects Pakistani women themselves. First published by the Pakistani Academy of Letters, the narratives from the post-independence generation are translated from Urdu, Punjabi, Seraiki, Pushto and Sindhi. They reveal the increasing power and influence that Pakistani women writers have achieved in the last half-century and explore the contrasts and conflicts between the modern and the traditional worlds. This anthology has been produced in collaboration with UNESCO.

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This anthology has been produced in collaboration with UNESCO.