Ice-Candy Man

by Bapsi Sidhwa

Paperback

Published May 26, 2016

About the author

Bapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.
She was best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel, on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" was released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citizens Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with the title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa".

Reviews

[Blix · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never knew I needed this perspective on Partition of India. I loved the short segmented chapters!

[mahlaqa · Rating 3 out of 5]

innocent at times, at times harrowing