The Wild Wind

The Wild Wind
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Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9781788852210
ISBN-13 : 1788852214
Rating : 4/5 (214 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Wild Wind by : Sheena Kalayil

Download or read book The Wild Wind written by Sheena Kalayil and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild Award Vanish 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 the Guardian's ' NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019' (https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/not-the-booker-prize)


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