02117nam a2200313 i 4500 OSt 20260112110655.0 260112s2024 enk e 000 1 eng d 9780861548286 RM 94.50 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 823.92 823.92 KHA G Khan, Shubnum, author. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years / SHUBNUM KHAN London : A Magpie Books, [2024] 308 pages ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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 people come to forget, or to be forgotten. Teenage Sana arrives with her father Bilal, both of them hoping for a fresh start after the tragedies that have blighted their family. But when the ghost of Sana's sister alerts her to the presence of a djinn that lingers just out of reach in the shadowy corners of the house, Sana embarks on a quest to uncover the history of her unnerving new home. Soon, her own story intertwines with that of a young woman who lived there some eighty years earlier, a woman whose tragic fate holds the key to Akbar Manzil's ultimate secret. Endlessly playful and richly imaginative, Shubnum Khan's vibrant debut delves into the transformative powers of love and grief as it explores the legacy of South Africa's complicated past Widowers Fiction Retirees Fiction Haunted houses Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Jinn Fiction Ghost stories Gothic fiction ddc B 202694 202694 0 0 PPAK G 2026-01-21 1 823.92 KHA A01900556 2026-07-18 2026-06-27 11:45:08 2026-06-27 B 0 0 SP G 2026-01-21 0 823.92 KHA A01900557 2026-01-21 09:04:52 B 0 0 JT G 2026-01-21 0 823.92 KHA A01900558 2026-01-21 09:04:52 B 0 0 LW G 2026-01-21 1 823.92 KHA A01900559 2026-07-13 12:32:21 2026-07-08 B 0 0 KM G 2026-01-21 1 1 823.92 KHA A01900560 2026-06-27 12:06:09 2026-06-07 B