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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1991

Originally published
  
1988

Publisher
  
Milkweed Editions

ISBN
  
0-915943-51-4

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Language
  
English

OCLC
  
23462280

Author
  
Bapsi Sidhwa

Genre
  
Novel

Adaptations
  
Earth (1998)

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Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Pages
  
289 pp (first edition, hardback)

Similar
  
Bapsi Sidhwa books, India books, Novels

Cracking India, (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.

Contents

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. The district decided not to ban the book.

    • References

    Cracking India Wikipedia
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