Themes of "Ice Candy Man"
A Parsi novelist named Bapsi Sidhwa. In the 1970s, she first began to write fiction. The best-known book by Bapsi Sidhwa is Ice-Candy-Man. It was published in 1991 by American publishers Milkweed Editions under the name Cracking India. It is an important political book. In the novel's storyline, Sidhwa employs the child-narrator approach. The novel has three main strands: the political, the narrative, and the young narrator. The 1947 Subcontinental divide is depicted in Ice Candy Man along with the appalling living circumstances. The author Bapsi Sidhwa describes in detail how the political shifts and political circumstances of those times affected the people of India through Lenny's eyes. The novel's theme is primarily concerned with human nature, partition of Subcontinent, religious intolerance, intercommunity marriage, and the exploitation and oppression of women. i) ...