The Wild Wind Paperback / softback
by Sheena Kalayil
Paperback / softback
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From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild AwardVanish 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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Birlinn General
- Publication Date:06/06/2019
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- ISBN:9781846974915
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Birlinn General
- Publication Date:06/06/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781846974915