Cracking India
| Author | Bapsi Sidhwa |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Milkweed Editions |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 289 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-915943-51-4 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 23462280 |
| 823 20 | |
| LC Class | 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."
Film
- Filmmaker Deepa Mehta's 1998 film, Earth (titled Earth 1947), is based on Cracking India.
Controversies
- A complaint was filed in Volusia County, Florida, arguing that Cracking India, which was on a high school reading list, contained "pornographic material" and should be banned from the county's public schools.[1] The district decided not to ban the book.[2]
References
Further reading
- 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.