Cool Sweet Water Selected Stories Author:Khadija Mastur Mastur's work, marked by a scathing, uncompromising realism, reveals a deep concern for the lives of ordinary people, especially women, who have been passed by in the rush for modernization. Her fiction also explores the political undercurrents that have shaped Pakistan's turbulent history and she examines the issues of minorities, a subject rar... more »ely touched on in Urdu fiction.« less