Bapsi Sidhwa

• Feb-1982
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A humorous look into the world of India's Parsis chronicles the rise to success of Faredoon--known as Freddy--Junglewalla as he attempts to assassinate his insidious mother-in-law, prevent his son from becoming a holy beggar, and cope with a variety ...

• Oct-1983
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• Oct-2000
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• Feb-2006
• / Historical
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A sheltered Pakistani girl is sent to America by her parents, with unexpected results: “Entertaining, often hilarious . . . Not just another immigrant’s tale.” -- Publishers WeeklyFeroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected sixteen-y...

• Feb-2006
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A New York Times Notable Book: A girl’s happy home life is suddenly disrupted by the 1947 Partition of India in this “multifaceted jewel of a novel” (Houston Chronicle).Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She...

• Nov-2006
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An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there, in a novel by “a writer of enormous talent” (Newsday).Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eig...

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A Pakistani teenager is trapped by tradition in this tale by “Pakistan’s finest English-language novelist” (New York Times).Wild, austere, and magnificently beautiful, the territories of northern Pakistan are a forbidding place, particularly fo...