River of Fire (Aag Ka Darya)
by Qurratulain Hyder
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0811214184
- ISBN 13
- 9780811214186
- Seller
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Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions Books, 1998. First. Fine/Fine. Qurratulain Hyder (1927 â€" 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a landmark historical novel providing context to the traumatic partition of the Indian subcontinent into two nation-states It has been described as "one of the Indian Subcontinent's best known novels" The novel timelines spanned more than two thousand years, starting from the time of Chandargupta Maurya in the fourth century BC to the post-Independence period in India and Pakistan It was published in Urdu in 1959 and translated by the author into English in 1998 as River of Fire
This fine copy is in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine There are no marks or damage at all The unclipped DJ is similarly in excellent, undamaged condition 428 pp.
This fine copy is in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine There are no marks or damage at all The unclipped DJ is similarly in excellent, undamaged condition 428 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AA1157
- Title
- River of Fire (Aag Ka Darya)
- Author
- Qurratulain Hyder
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0811214184
- ISBN 13
- 9780811214186
- Publisher
- New Directions Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
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Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
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About Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
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