| Author: |
Bapsi Sidhwa |
| Publisher: |
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services |
Review:
"Bapsi Sidhwa has turned her gaze upon the domestic comedy of a Pakistani family in the
1940s and somehow managed to evoke the great political upheavals of the age ... and I am particularly touched by the way she has held the wicked world up to the mirror of a young girl's mind and caught so much that is lyrical and significant ... a mysterious and wonderful novel." Richard Ryan in Washington Post
"Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man is like foraging through a tableful of discounted Swatch
watches, and finding a gold Rolex......it illustrates the power of good fiction: a historical
tragedy comes alive, yielding insight into both the past and the subcontinent's turbulent
present." Deidre Donahue in USA Today
Throughout, the novel sustains the vitality of Lenny's world with a series of wonderfully comic scenes. Highly recommended for all libraries." J. Sudrann in Library Journal.
| DesiStore # |
PBS00815 |
| ISBN |
969-8784-05-5 |
| Edition |
Second |
| Year |
2005 |
| Pages |
291 |
| Weight (kg) |
.30 |
| Shipping Weight (lbs) |
.66 |
| Pics (color) |
0 |
| HB/PB |
Paper Back |
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"Like all Sidhwa's work, the novel contains a rich undercurrent of legend and folklore. It
combines Sidhwa's affectionate admiration for her own community with a compassion for the dispossessed. Her own childhood memories give the novel further depth and resonance." The Oxford Companion To Twentieth-Century Literature in English
"The novel is about the slow awaking of the child heroine both to sexuality and grown-up
pains and pleasures and to the particular historical disaster that overwhelm her world...
compulsively readable." Observer
"Ice-Candy-Man deserves to be ranked as amongst the most authentic and best on the
partition of India ... Sidhwa has blossomed into Pakistani's best writer of fiction in English." Khushwant Singh, The Tribune
Sidhwa's triumph lies in creating characters so rich in hilarious and accurate detail, so alive and active, that long after one has closed the book, they continue to perform their
extraordinary and wonderful feats before our eyes." Anita Desai in Dawn
Ice Candy Man
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