The Djinn waits a hundred years
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a...
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[2024]
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| 520 | |a "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins--a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret--and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning-with a cast of characters that will have you crying from both laughter and sorrow--this is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl's search for belonging"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Fathers and daughters |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Jinn |v Fiction. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Eccentrics and eccentricities |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Family secrets |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Durban (South Africa) |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a South Africa |v Fiction. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a Horror fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Magic realist fiction. |2 lcgft | |
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