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| The Pakistani Bride |
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| by Bapsi Sidhwa |
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| As a youth, Qasim leaves his tribal village in the remote Himalayas for the plains. Caught up in the strife surrounding the creation of Pakistan, he takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the bustling, decadent city of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| Water (Sidwha, Bapsi) |
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| by Bapsi Sidhwa |
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| The renowned author Bapsi Sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa's novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and here, Sidhwa adapts Mehta's... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2006 |
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| Cracking India |
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| by Bapsi Sidhwa |
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| The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2006 |
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| An American Brat |
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| by Bapsi Sidhwa |
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| Feroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected 16-year-old Pakistani girl, is sent to America by her parents, who are alarmed by the fundamentalism overtaking Pakistan — and their daughter. Hoping that a few months with her uncle, an MIT grad... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2006 |
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| The Crow Eaters |
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| by Bapsi Sidhwa |
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| At the dawn of the 20th century in Pakistan, Freddy Junglewalla moves his family — pregnant wife, baby daughter, and Jerbanoo, his rotund mother-in-law — from their ancestral forest home to cosmopolitan Lahore. He opens a store, and as... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2006 |
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