Ice Candy Man (Cracking India)

by Bapsi Sidhwa · 1988 · English

NovelPakistan

About the book

Narrated by Lenny, a young Parsi girl in Lahore. Her Hindu nanny and the nanny's admirers, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh, are torn apart by the violence of 1947, and the Ice Candy Man of the title betrays her. Deepa Mehta filmed it as Earth (1998).

Why it matters

Partition seen through the eyes of a young Parsi girl in Lahore; filmed as Earth (1998).