Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Karachi in 1938 to Parsi parents, and raised in Lahore. She is the author of several novels including An American Brat, Ice-Candy Man, and Water. In 1991 she received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest honour in the arts. Allo stesso modo seguiremo le avventure di uno dei suoi sette figli, ma non svelerò niente per non guastarvi il piacere della lettura. It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier – and will become busier still.

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A promising, even inviting beginning. However, in the very next instance we are told of his death at 65, a “majestic grey-haired patriarch” who enters the community’s calendar of great men and women, and is a name invoked in all ceremonies performed inPunjaband Sindh. His death is not only of a distinguished individual but indicative of the slow but steady decline of an entire community beautifully captured in The Crow Eaters. After reading the American Brat, I was thoroughly amused by The Crow Eaters. It is a comic picaresque which keeps the reader captivated with the light humor, suspense, and romance. The life and times of Freddy were described in a prolix yet interesting way. Although Freddy (Freedon Junglewalla) is the main character of the book, the story revolves around other members of his family and his influence on them. The skirmish encounters between Freddy and his mother-in-law (Jerbanoo) brought humor into the book. Memon Sahib kept complaining that it was a very difficult book to translate. It probably was, but he has done the writing justice and I’m sure people are going to admire and appreciate his language and skill enormously. I certainly do. After standing witness to a murder on the streets of the Caribbean island of Camaho, young Michael ‘Digger’ Digson is recruited into a unique plain clothes homicide squad, an eclectic group of semi-official police officers, led by the enigmatic DS Chilman. There is an air of family legend passed down and embroidered somewhat over the years, myths within which Sidhwa can see the essence of life, a force far stronger than honesty and sentimentality.

Sidhwa gives us the story of Faredoon Junglewalla a man who feels he is destined for great things and so embarks on a lifetime of social climbing. We meet him as a young man at the start of his ascent, travelling from his village in central India to the more opportune city of Lahore. The period nature of the book is evident from the fact that in 1903 (the year our story starts) Pakistan did not exist as a nation and so Lahore is still part of India but also for the fact that the character of his mother-in-law Jerbanoo is a staple of mother-in-law jokes from the early seventies when the book was written. “Take my mother-in-law…No please someone take her!” The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. Did the style and the language of this novel pose any particular problems for you as a translator? Was it more or less challenging than some of the other books you have translated? Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his ‘uncle’ is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father’s debts.

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A novel of immense charm and exuberance... Sidhwa consistently imparts the magic and colour of India even in its most down-to-earth aspects. -- The Times Freedom of choice is a cardinal doctrine in the teaching of Zarathustra. A child born of Zoroastrian parents is not considered a Zoroastrian until he has chosen the faith at the Navjote ceremony. Zarathustra in his Gathas says:As the daughter of a librarian Jen's love of books started from a very early age. Her reading obsession continued throughout her teenage years when she studied both English Language and English Literature at college.

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Ji Lin, an apprentice dressmaker, moonlights as a dancehall girl to pay her mother’s debts. One night, Ji Lin’s dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir that leads her on a crooked, dark trail. It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent, until his house gets demolished, and the Earth is destroyed to make way for a new hyperspace express route. Fortunately, Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he's an alien. Before he knows it, the pair are hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large friendly letters, with the words: DON'T PANIC.To mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, The Reading Agency have compiled a list of novels, short story anthologies and poetry collections published in the Commonwealth since 1952. This list is The Big Jubilee Read and features 70 titles – ten from each decade of the Queen’s reign. The list spans 31 countries and six continents. Frankly, it is a non-literary question. Why drag a work of imaginative literature into politics or ethics? I’d rather people just read and enjoyed the novel. There are plenty of “causes” to cry oneself hoarse over. I am still delighted with The Crow Eaters. Often, I chance upon passages that still make me laugh out loud. I remember laughing a lot as I was writing the book and being in a very good humour, for the most part. One of my absolute favourite genres is the Indian family saga. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a very small nuclear family and all celebrations were therefore a fairly small affair that I love these stories of large families and their fortunes through the generations but whatever the reason, I love reading them. The Junglewalla's swell the size of the small community from four families to five, but despite being taunted as "crow eaters" by the local Sikh children -due to the volume of their conversation- they find a tolerant home and a good place to conduct business.