The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years A Novel
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Erscheinungsdatum
09.01.2024
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE
AN INDIE NEXT PICK
A LIBRARY READS PICK
"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
"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.
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE
AN INDIE NEXT PICK
A LIBRARY READS PICK
"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
"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.
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Dreamlike, poetic atmosphere
Thala am 30.05.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2212165
Bewertet: Buch (Gebundene Ausgabe)
"The Djinn waits a hundred years" is a poetic story set in South Africa. Because of its setting, I first expected to learn more about the South African culture, but the author has Indian roots and all protagonists in this book are from India as well. So it is an Indian diaspora story. The narrator is a young, curious girl called Sana which mother and her twin sister have died. So It is just her and her father, who move to the mansion of Akbar Manzil. In the course of the story, the reader gets to know more about the story of the once great mansion and its residents. I loved the poetic and sinister way how the author describes the story. Sometimes it was just a bit too slow for me. After around 60% of the book, the story is told faster. More dramatic things happens as we get to know more about the tragic love story of Meena. It is not a scary story, but I was deeply touched. I would have loved to know more about the djinn who is a rather side character. Because of the title, I thought that the djinn would play an important role.
A wonderful book for readers who enjoy poetic, slow-burn mystery stories.
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