Phoenix Fled

Attia Hosain’s collection of short stories PHOENIX FLED is an intimate, warm, compassionate look at a world she belonged to, pre-partition North India, feudal in nature, yet where people co-existed across religious and class boundaries. It is a world since lost, but Attia Hosain’s characters still throb with the eternal complexities of human life, the dilemmas of envy, resignation, ageing, social awkwardness, shame, honour, love. Attia Hosain writes in a style that is elegant in its simplicity, laced with a truthful, clear-eyed observation of a world that has an astonishing contemporary relevance in today's time.