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A review by jayshull45
The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa
4.0
I loved this book and could have read it through again. It is a very entertaining story, full of hilarious episodes and characters. But it has more than humor to engage the reader--it has wisdom and insight into human nature, especially the humanity of the Parsis, that tiny but influential religious sect of India.
The time period is late nineteenth and early twentieth century and much of the novel is set in Lahore, a city now in Pakistan but then part of India. Freddy Junglewalla is a poor Parsi from Gujarat state who transports his family to the Punjab and becomes very wealthy. His relationship with Jerbanoo, his domineering mother-in-law, brings him misery but Freddy gains the upper hand. Although the novel contains some bawdy scenes, they are never in poor taste.
The time period is late nineteenth and early twentieth century and much of the novel is set in Lahore, a city now in Pakistan but then part of India. Freddy Junglewalla is a poor Parsi from Gujarat state who transports his family to the Punjab and becomes very wealthy. His relationship with Jerbanoo, his domineering mother-in-law, brings him misery but Freddy gains the upper hand. Although the novel contains some bawdy scenes, they are never in poor taste.