The Crow Eaters: A Novel

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Seeking fortune and opportunity, Faredoon ‘Freddy’ Junglewalla and his family – his pregnant wife, infant daughter, and burdensome mother-in-law – move from their ancestral village in rural India to the bustling metropolis of Lahore. Welcomed by the small but tight-knit Parsi community, Freddy soon establishes a booming business and his family becomes revered and respected. But when tragedy forces Freddy to rethink his legacy, intimations of historic change loom on the country’s horizon. Readers of Urdu will finally be able to catch up with The Crow Eaters, one of the finest novels to have come out ofPakistan. I remember that when it was first published there was some bewilderment and even some resentment and anger. What kind of reactions are you anticipating from the novel’s new readers? IT has a sense of an ending right from the beginning. Unlike most novels, The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa opens with a death. The great Fareedon Junglewalla is all set for dying and will reach another level of glory through this passage. He is Freddy for short, we are told, in a style at once easy and familiar, as if we are being introduced to a friend. Then he is described in bold brush-strokes as a “strikingly handsome, dulcet-voiced adventurer with so few scruples.” Give ear to the Great Truths. Look within with enlightened mind (lit: flaming mind) at the faith of your own selection, man by man, each one for himself. Crow Eaters, unlike old ladies, are not wives or steady girlfriends of any one particular member of the club. The Crow Eaters are basically SAMCRO groupies, available to club members for sex or companionship.

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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.La saga di Freddy è densa di avvenimenti che lo porteranno a diventare uno degli uomini più ricchi e influenti di Lahore. Freddy è, in generale, un personaggio che mi è stato simpatico, anche se ha dei tratti indubbiamente oscuri, in particolare c'è stato un episodio che mi ha dato molto fastidio, un fastidio quasi fisico. Da lì mi è diventato insopportabile, ma rimane comunque un personaggio scoppiettante e interessante da seguire.

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To the family living in the shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara’s visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim, coping endlessly with their problems, there is a renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape.Kerewin’s cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper.

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The Stepmother Tongue: An Introduction to New Anglophone Fiction. p.64. ISBN 978-1-349-26898-6. OCLC 1086529598. Still, magic and superstition has as much influence on their characters, right from the cradle, after all they are descended from the Magi; yet all the multi-varied gods of the more dominant Indian religions are also given a token of reverence. In her brief preface to the translation, Sidhwa says that she had the translation read out to her and fully endorses it. The approval was also echoed by Bano Qudsia, a very different sort of writer from Sidhwa. Yet Bano Qudsia manages to extract some elements of her particular brand of tassawuf from the novel, particularly in the character of Yazdi and his love-crazed majnoon-like actions. I could not help but wonder if Sidhwa tried to return the compliment by tracing out any degree of humour in Bano Qudsia’s Raja Gidh? I wish she could grant a leave of absence to Jerbanoo and ask her to take her cleansing ritual right in the midst of other straight-laced novels. What fun if Jerbanoo invited herself to a cup of tea in the coffeehouse at the centre of Intizar Husain’s Basti where his highbrow characters carry out their history-obsessed conversations! Srinivas, an elderly Brahmin, has been living in a south London suburb for thirty years. After the deaths of his son and his wife, this lonely man is befriended by an Englishwoman in her sixties, whom he takes into his home. The two form a deep and abiding relationship. However, the haven they create for themselves proves to be a fragile one. Racist violence enters their world and Srinivas's life changes irrevocably - as does his dream of England as a country of tolerance and equality. Booker Prize winner Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world.I also enjoyed reading about a particular people group and time period I, honestly, am pretty ignorant about. 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 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.