Books by Bapsi Sidhwa
“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
Interviews where books by Bapsi Sidhwa were recommended
The Best Novels from Pakistan, recommended by Safinah Danish Elahi
Over the past five years, Pakistani novels have become much more focused on people’s lived experience in Pakistan—rather than just catering to the expectations of an international audience, argues novelist, lawyer and publisher Safinah Danish Elahi. She picks five of her favorite novels from Pakistan, four of them published very recently.
