Ticket to India e-bog
78,70 DKK
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A family trip to India turns into a grand adventure in this contemporary novel about the Great Partition, from the award-winning author of Saving Kabul Corner and Shooting Kabul.A map, two train tickets, and a mission. These are things twelve-year-old Maya and her big sister Zara have when they set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmothers childhood home of Aminpur, a small town in Nort...
E-bog
78,70 DKK
Udgivet
17 november 2015
Længde
288 sider
Genrer
Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781481422604
A family trip to India turns into a grand adventure in this contemporary novel about the Great Partition, from the award-winning author of Saving Kabul Corner and Shooting Kabul.A map, two train tickets, and a mission. These are things twelve-year-old Maya and her big sister Zara have when they set off on their own from Delhi to their grandmothers childhood home of Aminpur, a small town in Northern India. Their goal is to find a chest of family treasures that their grandmothers family left behind when they fled from India to Pakistan during the Great Partition. But soon the sisters become separated, and Maya is alone. Determined to find her grandmothers lost chest, she continues her trip, enlisting help on the way from an orphan boy named Jai. Mayas grand adventure through India is as thrilling as it is warm: a journey through her familys history becomes a real coming-of-age quest.