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Biography Critical Writings on Bapsi Sidhwa |
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Books
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| The Crow Eaters | Cracking India | An American Brat | The Bride |
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Spartizione del Cuore |
Mister Candy | Ice Candy Man |
Interviews:
Earth A film based on Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Cracking India
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SIDHWA OMNIBUS EDITION BY OUP (2001)
Sara Suleri-Goodyear
This welcome and significant collection brings together for the first time four novels by one of Pakistans most distinguished authors, Bapsi Sidhwa. On a sociological level, Sidhwas work is crucial to an understanding of the cultural complexities of post-Independence Pakistani cultures, and the diaspora they have occasioned. On a literary level, Sidhwas novels are constructed with grace and written with an exquisite sense of humour, so that the subtleties of their irony totally dispenses with bombast or grandiloquent claims about postcolonial history. Instead, their characters are wrought with an understated delicacy, so that the reader is entranced by the writers ability to convey, for example, the appeal of Ayah in Ice Candy Man or the comic warmth of Freddy Junglewalla in The Crow Eaters. No writer has equaled Sidhwas capacity to address grim historical realities with both precision and affection: the compassion of her prose remains its most startling and original quality. Sidhwa is certainly one of the finest Anglophone novelists of South Asia; the brilliance of her writing deserves to be honored by the widest possible readership.
Sara Suleri-Goodyear, Professor of English, Yale University
Email bsidhwa@aol.com
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