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Her own childhood memories give the novel further depth and unscathed and no wiser from the brutal pain of Indian Her twentieth ce
resonance.’ independence: Ice-Candy-Man.’ to V.S. Naipaul’s
—The Oxford Companion To Twentieth-Century Literature —Weekly Mail writers.’
in English ‘As the ambiguities and contradictions residing in the political
‘A fluent, fast moving narrative of wit and wisdom.’ situation in the Punjab are explored in the course of Lenny’s ‘Ice-Candy-Man
—Irish Times narrative, so examples multiply of Sidhwa’s talent for fusing slapstick . . . and
‘A born storyteller, an affectionate, shrewd observer . . . she broad humour and trenchant criticism, concrete observation and moonlight settle
writes with authority and flair.’ imaginative insight, the realities of everyday existence and the author’s capacity
—New Statesman abstractions of politics and religion.’ to life is enviabl
‘Ice-Candy-Man is extremely taut, highly sensitive and its heart- —Third World Quarterly polio-ridden chil
rending realism is best brought out with the familiar elements. ‘Without a word of protestation or preaching and without because it is una
The treatment, much to the fulfillment of the reader, is not only histrionics, Sidhwa has written one of the most powerful memorable book
delightfully different but also inimitably exclusive . . . Sidhwa’s indictments of the riots which occurred during the Partition.’ finest English la
somewhat Joycian insight into child psychology and keen —World Literature Today
observation of child behaviour is what makes the book so ‘The novel is about the slow awaking of the child heroine both to ‘Bapsi Sidhwa h
compelling and virtually unputdownable.’ sexuality and grown-up pains and pleasures and to the particular a Pakistani famil
—Miscellany historical disaster that overwhelms her world . . . compulsively the great politica
‘The brilliantly created Indian characters in this novel are made readable.’ touched by the w
with a real face, that turns at times into a mask of horror and at —Observer mirror of a youn
others into a peal of laughter . . . Of all the marvellous people ‘A powerful and dramatic novelist.’ and significant .
brought to life in this novel there is one who signifies resistance —The Times
to change and uses the chaos around him for his own malicious ‘Sidhwa, a Parsee living in Pakistan, is a rarity even in swiftly- ‘Much has been
ends. And so in the end there is one person who comes out changing Asia—a candid, forthright, balanced woman novelist. Partition of India

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