Vintage Lead Debut. When kids go missing in an Indian slum, nine-year-old Jai takes matters into his own hands- an irresistible child narrator to captivate the literary/commercial market
Deepa Anappara grew up in Kerala, southern India, and worked as a
journalist in cities including Mumbai and Delhi. Her reports on the
impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of
children won the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the Every Human
has Rights Media Awards, and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship
in Journalism. A partial of her debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the
Purple Line, won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, the
Bridport/Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and the Deborah Rogers
Foundation Writers Award. She has an MA in Creative Writing from
the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and is currently studying
for a PhD on a CHASE doctoral fellowship.
www.deepa-anappara.com
It’s not hard to see why Djinn Patrol is one of the most eagerly
awaited debut novels this spring. It feels like a reckoning with
modern India and its many complex problems… Anappara cleverly
filters a uniquely Indian horror story through a chirpy, Famous
Five-esque narrative and the voice of a witty, young, have-a-go
hero
*The Times*
Djinn Patrol is storytelling at its best. The prose is not just
sympathetic, vivid, and beautifully detailed, but also completely
assured and deft. We care about these characters from the first
page and our concern for them is richly repaid
*Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The
Gathering*
In Jai, Anappara has created a boy vivid in his humanity, one whose
voice somersaults on the page. Rich with easy joy, Anappara’s
writing announces the arrival of a literary supernova... (Warning:
If you begin reading the book in the morning, don’t expect to get
anything done for the rest of the day.)
*New York Times Book Review*
Anappara's characters brim with swagger and spirit and she creates
a world of wit, warmth and heart
*i*
A captivating literary style... A dazzling, wonderful book
*Daily Mail*
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