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| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat |
| Author: Fawzia Afzal-Khan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,638 Words, 10,052 Characters |
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Bapsi Sidhwa's latest novel, An American Brat, announces her entry into the orbit of diasporic fiction shared by such better-known South Asian writers as Bharati Mukherjee and Salman Rushdie. She handles the change in theme and locale just as adroitly as do her luminary counterparts.
Sidhwa's earlier novels--The Crow Eaters, The Bride, and Cracking India--all portray life in her home territory in the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent and the tumultuous history of partition and independence. An American Brat moves its locale, for the most part, to the New World, in particular to the United States, that heady place of youthful independence.
The plot is fairly simple. Feroza, a young Pakistani Parsi girl, is packed off for a summer visit to America by her parents, who wish to protect her ...
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...c effect of having this fictional sister pay for her brother's delivery from Zia's hands just prior to his hanging seems entirely unnecessary and even confusing, as it occurs in the beginning of the novel. In fact, with the other scenes mentioned, it contributes to a number of false starts before the novel gains a surer footing and the narrative acquires a life of its own--as indeed they do.
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