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  Author Bapsi Sidhwa
  Country United States
  Language English
  Genre Novel
  Publisher Milkweed Editions
  Release Date 1991
  Media Type Print ( Hardback & Paperback )
  Pages 289 pp (first edition, hardback)
  Isbn ISBN 0-915943-51-4 (first edition, hardback)


''Cracking India'', ( 1991 , U.S., 1992, India; originally published as ''Ice Candy Man'', 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa .


PLOT SUMMARY


Told through the eyes of young Lenny Sethna (a young Parsi girl afflicted with Polio who lives in Lahore ), ''Cracking India'' explores Lenny's experience of the Partition Of India in 1947.


FILM

  • Filmmaker Deepa Mehta 's 1998 film, '' Earth '' (titled ''1947'' in India ), is based on ''Cracking India''.



CONTROVERSIES

  • A complaint was filed arguing that ''Cracking India'', which was on an American high school reading list, contained " Pornography " and should be banned from the school's reading list. {Link without Title}



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