Review of 'The heart breaks free & The wild one' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
These are excellent stories- with the right mixture of humor and drama which combine to produce a searing critique of social morality and the toll it takes on individuals especially women. But the quality of translation is rather poor. So much is lost in the mechanical sentence to sentence translation that has been undertaken. While Women Unlimited needs to be commended for bringing out this series on Chugtai's novellas and stories, I wish they had commissioned a fresh translation.
These are excellent stories- with the right mixture of humor and drama which combine to produce a searing critique of social morality and the toll it takes on individuals especially women. But the quality of translation is rather poor. So much is lost in the mechanical sentence to sentence translation that has been undertaken. While Women Unlimited needs to be commended for bringing out this series on Chugtai's novellas and stories, I wish they had commissioned a fresh translation.
