Cracking India: A Novel
- ISBN13: 9781571310484
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the large group of admirers that Ayah draws. It is in the company of these working class characters that Lenny learns about religious differences, religious intolerance, and the blossoming genocidal strife on the eve of Partition. As she matures, Lenny begins to identify the differences between the Hindus, Moslems, and Sikhs engaging in political arguments all around her. Lenny enjoys a happy, privileged life in Lahore, but the kidnapping of her beloved Ayah signals a dramatic change. Soon Lenny’s world erupts in religious, ethnic, and racial violence. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, the domestic drama serves as a microcosm for a profound political upheaval.
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The book is nothing but a waste of time and if anything else a way to let out Muslim hate toward any other religion. It simply has no historical meaning because of its way of potraying the scene that was so hard on the real patriotic population of India. It seems like Sidhwa only writes this book to live in some kind of a hallucination and denial to get away from the fact that the whole reason for the pain in the partition was non other than her own Muslim population. Reading this book will never in a million years give anyone the true picture of the real partition but to be honest it has good writing style.
Rating: 1 / 5
I must agree with an earlier reviewer: the book is well written but betrays the author’s racist prejudices. That is a tragedy, for it is these very prejudices that were behind the break up of India fifty years ago.
M. Prasad. Minneapolis, MN
Rating: 1 / 5
The book is nothing but a waste of time and if anything else a way to let out Muslim hate toward any other religion. It simply has no historical meaning because of its way of potraying the scene that was so hard on the real patriotic population of India. It seems like Sidhwa only writes this book to live in some kind of a hallucination and denial to get away from the fact that the whole reason for the pain in the partition was non other than her beloved Muslim population. Reading this book will never in a million years give anyone the true picture of the real partition but to be honest it has good writing style.
Rating: 1 / 5
My dear Hima, Bapsi Sidhwa is Parsi, not Muslim. Check your facts before writing. And next time, read the book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Why did Bapsi Sidhwa change the name of the novel from “Ice Candy Man” to “Cracking India”? Maybe because it is more catchy and sells better. And does the cracking refers to the partition? If so it should have been Cracked India? Or is it a snide reference to separatist movements in India. Anyway its a tasteless title and although I liked the novel I do not like her sales tactics!
Rating: 3 / 5