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UNESCO Collection of Representative Works

Translated from the Urdu Udas Naslein

First English-language edition

published in Great Britain 1999 by

Peter Owen Publishers

This ebook editon 2014

© Abdullah Hussein 1963

© UNESCO 1999 for the English translation

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