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Praise for Bapsi Sidhwa

“The author’s capacity for bringing an assortment of characters vividly to life is enviable. Pakistan’s finest English-language novelist.”—New York Times Book Review

“Sidhwa is a superb storyteller.”—New Internationalist

“Bapsi Sidhwa is a writer of enormous talent, capable of endowing small domestic occurrences with cosmic drama and rendering calamitous historical events with deeply felt personal meaning.”—New York Newsday

“A powerful and dramatic novelist.”—The Times

“An affectionate and shrewd observer . . . a born storyteller.”—The New Statesman

“Sidhwa is a rarity even in swiftly changing Asia—a candid, forthright, balanced woman novelist. Her twentieth-century view of Indian life can only be compared to V.S. Naipaul’s. Sidhwa is among the most invigorating Indian writers.”—Bloomsbury Review

“Sidhwa writes dramatically of marriage, loyalty, honour and their conflict with old ways.”—Publisher’s Weekly

“There is a Kiplingesque quality to Sidhwa’s writing, the congenital ability to make one feel the ambiance of the locale.”—Houston Chronicle

“Bapsi Sidhwa writes with immense vigour and liveliness.”—Good Housekeeping