The Sound of Falling Leaves: Qurratulain Hyder's Narratives of Dispossession

'River of Fire' is to Urdu fiction what 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is to Hispanic literature - Aamer Hussein, The Times Literary Supplement

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Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007), was one of the foremost writers of Urdu literature—a novelist and short story writer, journalist and educationist. Her works were among the first to give radical direction for a burgeoning feminist voice in the subcontinent. Mere Bhi Sanam Khane was one of her early works, in which she explored the causes of Hindu Muslim violence leading upto Partition through the lives of young citizens. She is best remembered for her work Aag ka darya (The River of Fire) that emerged out of the deep anguish felt in the Partition of India. As a writer she places particular emphasis on weaving historical reality into the fictive lives of her characters. Other notable works include Safina- e-Gham-e…