This collection of four short stories - in a bilingual edition - presents the translation from Urdu, and then the original texts by Qurratulain Hyder. The author evokes the atmosphere of her childhood memories, funny or tragic vignettes of life, and intimate suffering through which the sophistication, but also the cruelty of Indian society at the time of Partition is revealed. The book is prefaced by an introduction by Marguerite Gricourt and the French translation of the preface that Qurratulain Hyder wrote for The Sound of Falling Leaves, a collection of short stories that she herself translated and adapted into English.