![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is alternately thrilled and frightened by the events she dutifully records, and so, in the end, is the reader. I can't get away with the littlest thing.'' Persuasive, this statement reinforces earlier comments she lets slip about herself which display this artless candor: ``the manipulative power of my limp'' ``I place a hypocritical arm protectively round her shoulders.'' Lenny's honesty is compelling, and the reader, like many in the story, cannot help but trust her. By FerozaJussawalla and ReedwayDasenbrock. India: Penguin Books, 2005 - Interview with Feroza Jussawalla.Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World. City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore. At one point Lenny declares: ``Lying doesn't become me. Lenny as narrator in Cracking India: In Cracking India Bapsi Sidhwa deploys Lenny. Sidwha tempers Lenny's hyper-awareness, however, by capturing the whole range of her fears and joys as her innocence becomes another casualty of the violence among Moslems, Sikhs and Hindus. As a child, a polio victim and a member of a minority, she is the perfect witness (though somewhat precocious) to the historic upheaval. The narrator of Sidwha's ( The Bride ) timely novel about the violent 1947 partition of India is the extremely observant Lenny Sethi, whose family belongs to the Parsee community in Lahore. ![]()
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