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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Dhawan, R. K., and Novy Kapadia, editors. The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. New Delhi: Prestige, 1996, 300 p.

Dhawan and Kapadia present a collection of essays by various authors on Sidhwa's novels The Crow Eaters, The Bride, Ice-Candy-Man (Cracking India), and An American Brat.

Ryan, Richard. “India in an Evil Hour.” Washington Post Book World 21, no. 47 (24 November 1991): 10.

Ryan praises Cracking India as a remarkable and mysterious novel by a gifted writer.

Zaman, Niaz. “Images of Purdah in Bapsi Sidhwa's Novels.” In Margins of Erasure: Purdah in the Subcontinental Novel in English, edited by Jasbir Jain and Amina Amin, pp. 156-73. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1995.

Zaman discusses representations of women in Pakistani Muslim society in Sidhwa's novels.

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Judy Cooke (review date 19 September 1980)
   2. Patricia Craig (review date 26 September 1980)
   3. Frank Rudm (review date 18 October 1980)
   4. Alamgir Hashmi (review date autumn 1984)
   5. Marianne Wiggins (review date 26 February 1988)
   6. Bapsi Sidhwa and David Montenegro (interview date 26 March 1988/24 March 1989)
   7. Maria Couto (review date 1 April 1988)
   8. Tariq Rahman (review date autumn 1988)
   9. Kamala Edwards (review date fall 1991)
   10. Jagdev Singh (essay date 1992)
   11. Edward Hower (review date 24 November 1992)
   12. Edit Villarreal (review date 12 December 1993)
   13. Chris Goodrich (review date 14 January 1994)
   14. Adele King (review date spring 1994)
   15. Novy Kapadia (essay date 1996)
   16. Alamgir Hashmi (essay date 1996)
   17. Bapsi Sidhwa and Preeti Singh (interview date 1998)
   18. Jill Didur (essay date July 1998)
   19. Ambreen Hai (essay date summer 2000)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright