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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE
Rich and swoonyan ambitious delight, with rich characters and some exceptionally lovely writingThis is the start of a major career. The New York Times Book Review
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A dark and heady dream of a book (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous
Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Nearly a century later, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for eclectic misfits, seeking solely to disappear into the mansions dark corridors. Except for Sana. Unlike the others, she is curious and questioning and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion: To the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objectsand to the door at its end, locked for decades.
Behind the door is a bedroom frozen in time and a worn diary that whispers of a dark past: the long-forgotten story of a young woman named Meena, who died there tragically a hundred years ago. Watching Sana from the rooms shadows is a besotted, grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since her mysterious death. Obsessed with Meenas story, and unaware of the creature that follows her, Sana digs into the past like fingers into a wound, dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone living and dead at Akbar Manzil. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girls search for belonging.
Author: Shubnum Khan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780593653470
Language: English
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