Cracking India
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| Cracking India | |
| Author | 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) |
Cracking India, (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.
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[edit] Plot summary
Told through the eyes of young Lenny Sethna (a young Parsi girl afflicted with polio who lives in Lahore), Cracking India explores Lenny's experience of the partition of India in 1947.
[edit] Film
- Filmmaker Deepa Mehta's 1998 film, Earth (titled 1947 in India), is based on Cracking India.
[edit] 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]
