The Crow Eaters
A Novel
by Bapsi Sidhwa
Loading his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and widowed mother-in-law
into a bullock cart, Faredoon Junglewalla—Freddy for short—leaves his
ancestral village in the forests of central India, bound for the
bustling city of Lahore. Despite the nagging of his unbearable
mother-in-law, Freddy’s business and family flourish, and he soon
becomes a patriarchal figure in the thriving Parsee community. This
endearing family saga provides a vibrant window onto life in India
under British colonial rule, and a nation on the threshold of historic
transformation.
Bapsi Sidhwa
Author's Bio:Born
in Karachi and raised in Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa has been lauded
as Pakistan’s finest novelist. Sidhwa is the author
of four novels: The Bride, Crow Eaters, An American Brat, and Cracking
India which was made into the
award-winning film Earth by Indian director Deepa Mehta in 1999. Sidhwa
was the recipient the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest honor in the
arts in 1991, and was inducted into the Zoroastrian Hall of Fame in
2000. She has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, and the
Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe, amongst other honors. She
now resides with her husband in Houston, Texas.
Quotes:“Funny, exotic, bawdy, ingenious, always entertaining.”—People
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Binding: Paper
Availability In Stock: 217
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2006
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Edition: 2nd
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9781571310507
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