UDAS NASLAIN URDU NOVEL DOWNLOAD

One can speculate that typically if not in every case the larger the social, political or cultural context, the weaker is the profile of characters in a novel. It won the Adamjee Award in , the year of its publication. You actually feel like you wanna walk through the fields of Roshan Pur and experience one of Roshan Mahal's famous parties. Especially the main characters Naeem and Azra were too confusing sometimes. Apr 07, Amir Amin added it. But, I could never really know the inner lives and struggles of the characters.

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Ufas have mixed feelings about this book, there were sparks of genius here and there and paragraphs which I immensely enjoyed but then there were long stretches of plain boring narrative.

Thanks for telling us about the problem. The book is no doubt exceptional in many ways.

That points to change of times in and around Pakistan where the historical and structural context of the Indian subcontinent has receded from memory, along with the process of looking inwards amid fears of existential insecurity. This book itself doesn't have a particular centralized plot rather than that it revolves around the evolution of characters.

Return to Book Page. In this context, one needs to mention its reflective style whereby an omniscient story-teller continues to move from one event to another and from one character to another in order to bring out the effect of a supra-local massive current of life.

Abdullah Hussein was an Urdu novelist and short story writer from Pakistan famous for his novel Udaas Naslain.

Jan 30, Samreen rated it really liked it Shelves: It's certainly one of the better Urdu novels, but I wanted a bit more. If you naslaain interested in subcontinent literature, if you want to read something that is more about the people than the journey itself then this book is a must read.

Udaas Naslain — one of the greatest novels in Urdu literature

Yes Overall, it contains bits of all kinds of genre but that is not what makes it worth reading. A vivid depiction of the widespread disillusionment and seismic upheavals. Adamjee Literary Award for Urdu Prose Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube.

Jun 09, Ali rated it really liked it. View all 4 comments. Amazing, it touched my heart. While it was written at a time when partition udaz at the centre of all fiction, still it is not exactly about partition except in the last chapter that related to migration and resettlement. There is something I nas,ain surely say that the pre partition era and all scenarios portrayed bitterly but in such a beautiful sense, the character of naeem and other characters psyche are awesomely displayed.

Udaas Naslain / اُداس نسلیں

Jub hum marengy to shaed behadd hiraan o pareshaan hongy. Jul 15, Rai M. This book is recommended to those who actually think, dive into the characters and are totally fine being sad. Books by Abdullah Hussein. But, with all due respect, I did not like the bluntness of this book. Urdu novelists have gradually moved away from partition as a theme and shied away from writing about larger entities and identities of cultural and social movements.

Some points of the story were not clear, like why Naeem left Azra after their initial meeting etc.

Udaas Naslain / اُداس نسلیں by Abdullah Hussein

We are sad generations. The best thing about the novel is how the writer paints the picture of the pre-partition Indian Subcontinent. It is considered as a masterpiece and one of the greatest novels in Urdu literature. We were Peasants, We are labor now and we will someone else in coming years but one thing will be sure and is sure that we'll be sad and we won't be able to do anything.

A powerful narrative and language describing perfectly the agony of lost weary generations. Feb 17, Muhammad Ahmed Siddiqui rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: The overall mood I shall say, did resonate with my person but it was not a moment of awakening. A bundle full of small tragedies in a single man story,you will need a urdj gut and patience to read this book because there is too much scene creation and depression created in every aspect of this book.

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