The Eye of the Horse

The Eye of the Horse
Jamila Gavin
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NZ$ 19.99
Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780008511258
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The dramatic second story in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning Jamila Gavin, author of Coram Boy. India 1948. "The light has gone out of our world. . . . Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated. In India, chaos and turmoil reign. In England, Jaspal and Marvinder' s father is in prison. Jaspal cannot forgive him, and longs to return to his village in the Punjab where he feels he belongs. Marvinder has found friends, her first love, and her gift as a violinist. But how can she ignore her mother' s voice calling her back to India? She is torn between two worlds. A story of thesearch for reconciliation, the sequel to Wheel of Surya is a beautifullycrafted story sets against the backdrop of Indian independence and thePartition of India and Pakistan. No children' s books about India conveysthese issues and themes with the effortless ease of Jamila Gavin. Her diversevoice is the perfect introduction to this period of history, for fansof The Bone Sparrow, Morris Gleitzman' s Once, and KatherineRundell' s The Wolf Wilder.
' Jamila Gavin is one of our greatest writers' - S. F. Said
Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to both countries. The family finally settled in England where Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked for the BBC and became a mother of two children. It was then that she began writing children' s books, and felt a need to reflect the multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008511258
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Farshore
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 180g
Pages: 256

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