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Author Khan, Shubnum, author.

Title The Djinn waits a hundred years / Shubnum Khan.

Publication Info. [New York] : Viking, [2024]
2 holds on first copy returned of 21 copies

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  SF KHAN, S.    DUE 04-05-24
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  FICTION KHAN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - New Materials  F KHAN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Main Level  FICTION KHAN    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - ON-ORDER (not available yet)    On Order
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - New Materials  FIC KHAN    DUE 04-15-24
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  F KHAN SHUBNUM    DUE 04-17-24
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  F KHAN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  FIC KHAN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  F KHAN    DUE 04-07-24

Edition First edition.
Description 308 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously 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. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning-with a cast of characters that will have you crying from both laughter and sorrow-Paper Flowers is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl's search for belonging"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Haunted houses -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Jinn -- Fiction.
Boardinghouses -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Durban (South Africa) -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
Ghost stories.
Father-daughter relationship -- Fiction.
Hotels and motels -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
South Africa -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels (OCoLC)fst01921742
Novels.
ISBN 9780593653456 (hardcover)
0593653459
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