Now Filmed as 1947, a motion picture by Deepa Mehta. Few novels have caught the turmoil of the Indian subcontinent during Partition with such immediacy, such wit and tragic power. Bapsi Sidhwa’s lce-Candy-Man is an intimate glimpse into events as they tear apart the world of Lenny, a young Parsee girl growing up in the pungent, busybodying city of Lahore.