The short-story, is one of the most important literary subgenres in Urdu literature, despite its relative youth. This was influenced by western and literary concepts and tendencies, as well as the contemporary industrial and mechanized environment. The literature that can help to provide permanent comfort and peace to the life of a common man breathing in a fragmented society and an oppressive system is undoubtedly 'Literature for Life'. This book "Jadeed Urdu Afsane - 1 (Selected contemporary fiction)" is a collection of short stories written by prominent writers of the Urdu literature and which can truly be describe as different shades of life.

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