The Women's Courtyard

A feminist classic of Partition literature in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell. A Penguin Classic Set in the turbulent decade of the 1940s, provides an inverted perspective on the Partition. Mastur’s novel<

About the author

Khadija Mastur (1927-82) was a renowned and award-winning Urdu writer from Pakistan, famous for her novels and short stories. She is best remembered for her novel Aangan, published in Penguin Classics as The Women's Courtyard.Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages. Her novels include Home Fire (2018) which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was long listed for the Man Booker Prize, Burnt Shadows which won the Premio Boccaccio in Italy, and A God in Every Stone which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award. She grew up in Karachi, has an MFA from the University of Manchester in Amherst, and now lives in London.Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She is a recipient of the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award and her translations have been honored with The International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Her novel Alice Sees Ghosts and Mixed Metaphors, her collection of poems about translation, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury India, and her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press (UK) in 2027.

Product details

• Authors: Khadija Mastur, Mastur Khadija, Daisy Rockwell, Kamila Shamsie
• Assisted by: Shamsie Kamila (Foreword), Daisy Rockwell (Translation), Rockwell Daisy (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.07.2025
• EAN: 9780143138068
• ISBN: 978-0-14-313806-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Pakistan, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, India, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, c 1940 to c 1949, FICTION / World Literature / Pakistan, Classic fiction: general and literary