<p>‘Jamila Gavin is one of our greatest writers’ – S.F. Said</p>

The dramatic final volume in the Wheel of Surya trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author of Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin MBE. In 1947 India is rocked by the Independence movement and partition with Pakistan. Their lives disrupted by violence, Jaspal and Marvinder are sent from their Indian village to find their father, who is a student in England. In The Track of the Wind, Jaspal and Marvinder are reunited with their mother in India, but their fight for independence goes on. A story touching on culture, class, faith and family set against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan. No children’s books about India conveys these issues and themes with the effortless ease of Jamila Gavin. Her diverse voice is the perfect introduction to this period of history, for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Morris Gleitzman's Once, and Katherine Rundell's The Wolf Wilder.
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The dramatic final volume in the Wheel of Surya trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author of Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin MBE.
‘Jamila Gavin is one of our greatest writers’ – S.F. Said
Competition: The;Book Thief;When the World Was Ours;Code Name Verity;Private Peaceful;War Horse;Boy in the Striped Pyjamas;Carries War;Diary of a Young;Girl;From Berlin;Violinist of Auschwitz;silver sword. Liz Kessler;Elizabeth Wein;Michael Morpurgo;John Boyne;Marcus Zusak;Nina Bawden;Anne Frank;Ian Serraillier
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780008511241
Publisert
2022-07-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Farshore
Vekt
160 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
Y, 03
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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Biographical note

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-outstreet in Shepherd’s Bush, a bungalow in Poona, near Mumbai, and a terraced house in Ealing. She settled into a little town cottage in Stroud,Gloucestershire twenty five years ago but she still loves to travel. She won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year award with her book Coram Boy in 2000.