Kalayil, Sheena
(forfatter)
Wild Wind e-bog
45,63 DKK
From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild AwardVanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy's father leaves and returns to India. His departure brings about a chain …
From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild AwardVanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy's father leaves and returns to India. His departure brings about a chain of events which force Sissy into the adult world and have profound, long-lasting consequences. Moving back and forth in time as the adult Sissy reflects on her childhood, The Wild Wind is a haunting, absorbing coming-of-age tale of lost loves and lost innocence - one that takes readers on a journey into a young woman's past and its repercussions on her future. Featured on theGuardian's 'NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019'(https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/not-the-booker-prize)
E-bog
45,63 DKK
Forlag
Polygon
Udgivet
09.06.2019
Genrer
Fiction: general and literary
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781788852210
From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild AwardVanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy's father leaves and returns to India. His departure brings about a chain of events which force Sissy into the adult world and have profound, long-lasting consequences. Moving back and forth in time as the adult Sissy reflects on her childhood, The Wild Wind is a haunting, absorbing coming-of-age tale of lost loves and lost innocence - one that takes readers on a journey into a young woman's past and its repercussions on her future. Featured on theGuardian's 'NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019'(https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/not-the-booker-prize)
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