Cracking India

Cracking India
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."

Film

  • Filmmaker Deepa Mehta's 1998 film, Earth (titled Earth 1947), is based on Cracking India.

Controversies

  • 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]

External links

  1. ^ http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/2005_4005835/the-flap-over-cracking-india-school-board-consider.html

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