Description: In an old wardrobe a djinn sits weeping. It whimpers and murmurs small words of complaint. It sucks its teeth and berates the heavens for its fate. It curses the day it ever entered this damned house. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate overlooking the sparkling ocean beyond South Africa's eastern coast. Now, its Palladian windows and marble parapets, its golden domes and Romanesque towers have fallen into disrepair. Now, Akbar Manzil is where people come to forget, or to be forgotten. Teenage Sana arrives with her father, Bilal, both of them hoping for a fresh start after the tragedies that have blighted their family. But when the ghost of Sana's sister alerts her to the presence of a djinn that lingers just out of reach in the shadowy corners of the house, Sana embarks on a quest to uncover the history of her unnerving new home. Soon, her own story intertwines with that of a young woman who lived there some eighty years earlier, a woman whose tragic fate holds the key to Akbar Manzil's ultimate secret. Endlessly playful and richly imaginative, Shubnum Khan's vibrant debut delves into the transformative powers of love and grief as it explores the legacy of South Africa's complicated past.
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Location: Hillsdale, NSW
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EAN: 9780861546268
UPC: 9780861546268
ISBN: 9780861546268
MPN: N/A
Format: Hardback, 320 pages
Author: Shubnum Khan
Book Title: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
Item Height: 2.8 cm
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Item Weight: 0.52 kg
Item Width: 15.3 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Magpie
