A House Without Door — SHORT STORY by Khalid Fateh Muhammad
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Born on April 19, 1946; Khalid Fateh Muhammad is a renowned and prolific Urdu fiction writer, translator, critic and analyst of Pakistan — known for writing stories of unusual social observation. He has versatile art of writing, highly appreciated in the literary circle. In his short-stories and novels, he has established the ideas about social justice, poverty, hunger, thrust, and socio political issues prevailing in the society with natural, original and out spoken characters. His work has been highly acclaimed by the Urdu critics.
His family migrated from Gurdaspur East Punjab and settled in a village of Gujranwala district. While studying in Government College Gujranwala, he joined Pakistan Army. After retirement as Major, he settled in Gujranwala Cantt in 1993, and started writing. He has published twelve novels, seven collections of short stories and six books of translations from English — four Turkish novels, one German novel and one collection of Chinese stories. He also publishes a quarterly literary magazine “𝘈𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘬” from Gujranwala, Pakistan, which is considered as one of the important Urdu literary journals.
But there was a house that was built on the outskirts of the town… And, the strange thing about the architectural design was that it had no door, windows or ventilators.