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Khan, Shubnum, author.
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Haunted houses -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Jinn -- Fiction.
Boardinghouses -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
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The Djinn waits a hu...
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The Djinn waits a hundred years / Shubnum Khan.
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Khan, Shubnum, author.
[New York] : Viking,, [2024]
Subjects
Haunted houses -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Jinn -- Fiction.
Boardinghouses -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
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9780593653456 (hardcover)
0593653459 (hardcover)
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308 pages ; 24 cm
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Fiction
Khan
Checked out
10/02/2024
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Adult New Books
Khan
Checked out
09/20/2024
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Adult Fiction
Khan
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Adult Fiction
Khan
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09/28/2024
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Khan
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