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“This is set in the 1940s, and it’s about the narrator’s experience of Partition…This is one of my favorite books by a Pakistani writer. What really spoke to me in this novel was the fact that an eight-year-old was telling the story. I found it very refreshing, the way this was written, because a lot of times what happens is even when a child is speaking, it sounds like an adult. Bapsi Sidhwa is such a fantastic, phenomenal writer that it’s a disservice to even discuss her work critically, but I really like the way the voice was. At the time, I was writing my second novel, and I was also telling the story from a seven- to eight-year-old girl’s perspective.” Read more...
Safinah Danish Elahi, Novelist
