Laugh or Lament Selected Short Stories of Aziz Nes

About the translar and compiler: Colonel (Retired) Masud Akhtar Shaikh was born in Rawalpindi (pakistan) in 1928. After graduating from Gordon Collage, Rawalpindi in 1948 with Honours in English, he started studying joumalism at the University of the Punjab at Lahore. Shortly before completing the joumalism course, he was selected for a commission in the Pakistan Army as colonel in 1977. Durşng his career in the army, he had an opportunity tu study the Turkish language, both in Pakistan and Turkey. He qualified as a first class interpreter in Turkish language in 1963. In 1966, he was sent to do the Turkish Staff Collage course at Istanbul where he stayed till the end of 1967. It was during this period that he got deeply interested in Turkish literature...