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The Djinn waits a hundred years / Shubnum Khan.

Khan, Shubnum, (author.).

Summary:

"An ... 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593653456 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 308 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, [2024]
Subject: Boardinghouses > Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Haunted houses > Fiction.
Jinn > Fiction.
Mansions > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Tragedy > Fiction.
Durban (South Africa) > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Gothic fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Innisfil Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lakeshore Branch. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch FIC Khan 31681010356772 FICTION Available -


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