Translation is the window through which we can view the outside world. Also, we can say that it is the bridge connecting people to understand each other’s lifestyle, culture and civilization and to be aware of their current affairs.
Spreading over more than 1500 pages in three volumes, this compilation contains prose literature translated from 72 languages of 85 countries of seven continents into Urdu. It has fiction, drama, harlequinade, essay, memoir, and interview.
Second volume consists of prose literature from the countries in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand), West Asia (Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Georgia, Abu Dhabi, Israel, Palestine and Iraq), Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), East Europe (Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria), West Europe (France, Germany, Austria and Holland), North Europe (Britain, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland).
A collection of world prose literature that should be on the bookshelf of every writer, every professor, every scholar and every serious reader of literature. There are translations in Urdu, but if such a fine selection of international literature is found together in one place, it should be preserved for us and our future generations.