Ice-Candy Man /Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Ice-Candy-Man (also published as Cracking India) is a work of historical fiction that revisits the 1947 Partition of India through the eyes of a young Parsi girl in Lahore. Narrated by eight-year-old Lenny Sethi, the story charts her loss of innocence as she witnesses her world's gradual descent from multicultural harmony into communal hatred and violence.