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		Khan, Shubnum.

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The Djinn waits a hundred years / Shubnum Khan.

by Khan, Shubnum.

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Haunted houses -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Genies -- Fiction.

Boardinghouses -- Fiction.

Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction.

South Africa -- Fiction.

9780593653456 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Djinn waits one hundred years

Djinn waits 100 years

308 p. ; 24 cm.

"A novel"--Cover.

"[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.

Gothic fiction.

Historical fiction.

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