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The Eye of the Horse (The Wheel of Surya Trilogy)

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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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008511258
SKU
9780008511258
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Jamila Gavin
Jamila was born in Mussoorie (Bombay), India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Her Indian father and English mother met as teachers in Iran and by the age of eleven she had lived in an Indian palace in the Punjab, a flat in a bombed-out street in Shepherd’s Bush, a bungalow in Poona, near Mumbai, and a terraced house in ... Read more

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