Courtyard (Aangan)
Urdu (1962)
By Khadija Mastoor
Translated by Daisy Rockwell
This excerpt is a translation of the first twenty-five pages of the 318-page novel.
Past
How quickly a winter’s night grows desolate. Today as well, clouds had been gathering since evening. It had grown chillier. The electric street lamp burned silently. An owl hooted from a thicket of trees across the gali, near the half-built school building. Its ominous voice only added to the desolation of the night. It was a bit quieter in the large room next door now—she could no longer hear Chammi tossing and turning...
The Feature in the Indian Quarterly
