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The Crow Eaters	Cracking India	An American Brat	The Bride

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La Spartizione del Cuore	Mister Candy	Ice Candy Man	La fiancée pakistannaise

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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 Pakistan’s most distinguished authors, Bapsi Sidhwa. On a sociological level, Sidhwa’s 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, Sidhwa’s 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 writer’s 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 Sidhwa’s 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

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