![]() ![]() And in fact her household does break apart when her young nanny, or Ayah, is kidnapped. ``India is going to be broken.And what happens if they break it where our house is?'' asks narrator Lenny, the daughter (who turns eight in 1947) of an affluent Parsi family in Lahore. ![]() Pakistani Sidhwa's third novel (The Bride, 1983 The Crown Eaters, 1982)-written from the point of view of a young girl who's surrounded by the personal and political violence that accompanied the partitioning of India in 1947-manages to do justice to the complexity of racial, ethnic, and religious violence in the era and to evoke the passage from an affluent childhood to the ambiguities of experience. ![]()
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