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A sweeping and tender story set in a decaying mansion on South Africa's eastern coast

In an old wardrobe a djinn sits weeping. It whimpers and murmurs small words of complaint. It sucks its teeth and berates the heavens for its fate. It curses the day it ever entered this damned house.Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate overlooking the sparkling ocean beyond South Africa's eastern coast. Now, its Palladian windows and marble parapets, its golden domes and Romanesque towers have fallen into disrepair.Now, Akbar Manzil is where ...

Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previousAkbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for misfits, seeking to forget their pasts and disappear int...

Amori, ricordi e frammenti di vita di tre generazioni di donne musulmane, di origine indiana, nate e cresciute in Sud Africa. Khadejaah, forte e generosa, abituata a lavorare duro, Summaya, sua figlia, delusa dalla vita e dall'amore, in bilico tra un passato doloroso e un presente difficile, infine c'è la piccola Aneesa, creatura curiosa e affascinata dalla vita, che aiuterà la madre Summaya a riconciliarsi con il mondo e con se stessa. Tre di...