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03788aam a2200565 i 4500 001 E694C79CAF8511EEB3273D3A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240110010011 008 230123s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023002965 020 $a 0593653459 020 $a 9780593653456 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-sa--- 050 00 $a PR9499.4.K476 $b D55 2024 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23/eng/20230123 100 1 $a Khan, Shubnum, $e author. 245 14 $a The Djinn waits a hundred years / $c Shubnum Khan. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Viking, $c 2024. 300 $a 308 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret-and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning-with a cast of characters that will have you crying from both laughter and sorrow-Paper Flowers is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl's search for belonging"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fathers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Boardinghouses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 651 0 $a South Africa $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Gothic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Khan, Shubnum. $t Djinn waits a hundred years $d [New York] : Viking, [2024] $z 9780593653463 $w (DLC) 2023002966 941 $a 19 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020826.0 952 $l JKPC771 $d 20240413011308.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409013023.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20240402010101.0 952 $l JSPB572 $d 20240323013001.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314030416.0 952 $l VBPC034 $d 20240305044728.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20240302011640.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240302011343.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240302010716.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240210010149.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240207010337.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240206011236.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20240202031055.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240202021901.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127012806.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012558.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20240123010857.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20240110010114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E694C79CAF8511EEB3273D3A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search