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Chargement... The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel (édition 2024)par Shubnum Khan (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A competent example of a plot structure with two connected time periods and the later learning from the former with dark secrets. The setting in South Africa is not particularly well invoked nor the Indian culture of the characters other than the names of the food and spices, which is somewhat of a let down. But the lurking Djinn who is only made active in one sequence engineered for it to be so is a disappointment. ( ) A vivid and beautiful gothic tale that surprised me. Took a little bit to get into it at first but I soon saw this story play out in my mind like I was watching it on a screen. The characters from both timelines are so full. Loved this immensely. And you will not be disappointed if you read this in audio. Soneela Nankani is phenomenal. Immediately added a bunch of her narrated books to my TBR. A vivid and beautiful gothic tale that surprised me. Took a little bit to get into it at first but I soon saw this story play out in my mind like I was watching it on a screen. The characters from both timelines are so full. Loved this immensely. And you will not be disappointed if you read this in audio. Soneela Nankani is phenomenal. Immediately added a bunch of her narrated books to my TBR. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE "Rich and swoony...an ambitious delight, with rich characters and some exceptionally lovely writing...This is the start of a major career." — The New York Times Book Review AN INDIE NEXT PICK A LIBRARY READS PICK “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 mansion’s 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 objects—and 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 room’s shadows is a besotted, grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since her mysterious death. Obsessed with Meena’s 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 girl’s search for belonging. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-ÉvaluationMoyenne:
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