The Quilt and Other Stories
Chughtai, Ismat / Naqvi, Tahira / Hameed, Syeda S.![The Quilt and Other Stories](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/142/1421531/CHSBZCOP031421531.jpg)
In 1944 Ismat Chughtai successfully defended herself before the Imperial Crown Court against a charge of obscenity for her short story "Lihaaf" - "The Quilt". The narrator of this story, a precocious nine-year old child, is sent to visit an aunt. This aunt, ignored by a husband whose only interest seems to lie in entertaining slim-waisted young boys, suffers from a relentless bodily itch, an itch, her niece discovers, no doctor can cure and on...