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Bapsi Sidhwa was Pakistan's leading diasporic writer. She produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the Indian subcontinent's Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi/Zoroastrian community.
Born on August 11, 1938 in Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, and migrating shortly thereafter to Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa witnessed the bloody Partition of the Indian Subcontinent as a young child in 1947. Growing up with polio, she was educated at home until age 15, reading extensively. She then went on to receive a BA from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore. At nineteen, Sidhwa had married and soon after gave birth to the first of her three children. The responsibilities of a family led her to conceal her literary prowess. She said, "Whenever there was a bridge game, I'd sneak off and write. But now that I've been published, a whole world has opened up for me." (Graeber)
Novels
The Crow Eaters (1980)
The Bride (1983)
Ice Candy Man (1988)
aka Cracking India
An American Brat (1993)
The Pakistani Bride (2001)
Water (2006)
Their Language of Love (2013)
The Bride (1983)
Ice Candy Man (1988)
aka Cracking India
An American Brat (1993)
The Pakistani Bride (2001)
Water (2006)
Their Language of Love (2013)
Non fiction show
Omnibus editions show
Bapsi Sidhwa recommends
The Widows of Malabar Hill (2018)
(Perveen Mistry, book 1)
Sujata Massey
"Perveen Mistry is a rarity: a female solicitor in a bastion of masculinity! An astonishing heroine—fearless, intelligent and determined—she makes a memorable debut in Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill. A gripping whodunnit, full of excitement and heart, the novel also delightfully evokes Bombay in the 1920s—and celebrates the Parsi community that continues to enrich their beloved city."
