Ice Candy Man
Bapsi Sidhwa
277 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0140117679
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1989
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Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta.
Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power.
Bapsi Sidhwa’s lce-Candy-Man is an intimate glimpse into events as they tear apart the world of Lenny, a young Parsee girl growing up in the pungent, busybodying city of Lahore.