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Cracking India
by Bapsi Sidhwa
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0915943565
- ISBN 13
- 9780915943562
- Seller
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About This Item
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. Trade Paperbac. 1992. Near Fine. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, September 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and b right. Light reading Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, September 1992. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light reading wear to corners. Light dust stains. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 289 pages. Also published as Ice-candy-man. Eight-year-old Lenny, spirited daughter of an affluent Parsee family, narrates the story of the breaking of India as she witnesses Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs fight for their land and their lives during the dividing of the country into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan in 1947. This 1991 Liberatur Prize winner.wear to corners. Light dust stains. Not from a library . No remainder mark. 289 pages. Also published as Ice-candy-man. Eight-yea r-old Lenny, spirited daughter of an affluent Parsee family, narrates the s tory of the breaking of India as she witnesses Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs fight for their land and their lives during the dividing of the country into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan in 1947. This 1991 Liberatur P rize winner. .
Synopsis
Cracking India, (1991, U.S. , 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.
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- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000689
- Title
- Cracking India
- Author
- Bapsi Sidhwa
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0915943565
- ISBN 13
- 9780915943562
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- September 1992
- Pages
- 289
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Ice-candy-man, fiction, history, historical, partition, polio, poliomyelitis, patients, religion, Raj, India
- Bookseller catalogs
- India; History; Fiction; Asia; Britain;
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