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Cracking India: A Novel

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By Bapsi Sidhwa
Publisher Milkweed Editions
Cracking India: A Novel
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Eightyearold 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, NYT Notable Book and ALA Notable nominee is now available in paperback for the first time.

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296 pages296 pages
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Book ISBN:

9780915943562

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