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Khan, Shubnum.
Subjects
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.
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Khan, Shubnum.
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.
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The
Djinn
waits
a
hundred
years
/ Shubnum Khan.
by
Khan, Shubnum.
Viking, 2024.
Call #:
FICTION KHA
Subjects
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.
ISBN:
9780593653456 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Djinn
waits
one
hundred
years
Djinn
waits
100
years
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A novel"--Cover.
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.
Genre:
Gothic fiction.
Historical fiction.
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