↳ FEEL THE FISSURE
Cracking India
by Bapsi Sidhwa
A Lahore girl watches Partition arrive in her neighborhood.
For you if
you want to understand Partition through a child who sees everything and understands just enough to be destroyed by it
⚡ Choose Your Route ⚡
Not sold directly on this site. Support indie bookstores with a new copy, or go sustainable with a used one.
Supports independent bookstores
— or —
Secondhand & sustainable
$18 MSRP
· Paperback
Reference price shown. Other editions may be available.
Reference price shown. Other editions may be available.
Lenny is a young Parsi girl in Lahore, partially disabled, watching the 1947 Partition arrive in her neighborhood. She is protected by her privileged position — Parsi, therefore neither Hindu nor Muslim, therefore not a target — which gives her the observer's position without full safety. Sidhwa writes the violence of Partition through a child's incomplete understanding, which makes it land harder than any adult account. Published in the US as Cracking India. The most formally inventive Partition novel and the one that gives the violence its most intimate texture.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Pakistan • South Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Pakistani author
- Themes
- After Empire
