Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man

Asma Mansoor (International Islamic University Islamabad (Pakistan))

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1988

Places

Pakistan (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Published in 1988 (William Heinemann, London), Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man broke on the scene of Pakistani Anglophone writings and gained critical acclaim due to its poignant handling of the tragedies and riots framing the Partition of the subcontinent in 1947. It won Germany’s LiBerturpreis in 1991 and was acknowledged by the BBC as one of the hundred most inspiring novels in 2019. The novel’s American edition (Milkweed, Minneopolis, 1991) was titled Cracking India, on the insistence of Sidhwa’s American publishers, because “ice-candy-man” is a euphemism for a drug dealer in the United States, although the novel continues to be sold as Ice-Candy-Man in the UK. In 1998, …

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Citation: Mansoor, Asma. "Ice Candy Man". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 November 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19371, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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