Publisher's Synopsis
Complex, audacious and strongly individualistic, the stories in this selection underline the originality and power of the modern Urdu short story. From Quratulain Hyder's `Confessions of St Flora of Georgia', a frothy phantasmagoric tale of two corpses which rise from the dead, to Enver Sajjad's `The Bird', a caustic look at the eager white tourist discovering the Orient -- these are stories that dazzle with their wit, brilliance and intelligence. The contributors to The Colour of Nothingness are among the finest writers Pakistan and India have produced.
