Cracking India
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| Cracking India | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Bapsi Sidhwa |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
| Publication date | 1991 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 289 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-915943-51-4 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC Number | 23462280 |
| Dewey Decimal | 823 20 |
| LC Classification | PR9540.9.S53 I34 1991 |
Cracking India, (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.
Sidhwa's novel deals with the partition of India and its aftermaths. This is the first novel by a female novelist from Pakistan which describes the fate of people in Lahore. The novel deals with "the bloody partition of India through the eyes of a girl Lenny growing up in a Parsee family, surviving through female bonding and rebellion."
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Film [edit]
- Filmmaker Deepa Mehta's 1998 film, Earth (titled Earth 1947), is based on Cracking India.
Controversies [edit]
- A complaint was filed arguing that Cracking India, which was on an American high school reading list, contained "pornography" and should be banned from the school's reading list.[1]
References [edit]
Further reading [edit]
- Roy, Pinaki. "Diasporic Trauma: Ice Candy Man as a Partition Novel". New Literatures in English: Fresh Perspectives. Ed. Datta, K. Kolkata: The Book World, 2011 (ISBN 978-81-909991-6-8). Pp. 141-50.
