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  Cracking India (Paperback) By (author) Sidhwa

  

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  Short Description for Cracking IndiaEight-year-old 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
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  • Publisher: Milkweed Editions
  • Published: 03 February 2007
  • Format: Paperback 289 pages
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  • Categories: Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781571310484 ISBN 10: 1571310487
  • Sales rank: 75,299

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Full description for Cracking India

• During the 1947 Partition of India, young Lenny Sethi suffers from polio and spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, who exposes her to the differences among the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs, but when Ayah is kidnapped, Lenny's world erupts into religious, ethnic, and radical violence. Reprint.