Fiction-Urdu
By Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai. Translated from the original Urdu by Zoovia Hamiduddin
Written in the form of a letter addressed to God, the narrator’s experience of her traumatic train journey and her narration of the events unfolding after that constitute the plot of Vampire. Like many modernist novels, there is the depiction of the inner world of the main character and the use of dream sequences, nightmares, and foreshadowing of events in the narrative.
Reviewed by: Mohammad Asim Siddiqui