Sinopsis de THE WHEEL OF SURYA ANNIVERSARY EDITION
A beautiful new edition of the first volume in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award winning author Jamila Gavin India August 1947 Fleeing from their burnt out village as civil war rages in the Punjab Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother Jhoti Marvinder has already saved her brother s life once but now they both face a daily fight for survival Together they escape across India and nearly halfway around the world to England to find a father they hardly know in a new hostile culture A powerful story of culture class family and faith set against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan Perfect for fans of The Bone Sparrow Morris Gleitzman s Once and Katherine Rundell s The Wolf Wilder Jamila was born in Mussoorie 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 out street 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
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Egmont Books Limited
ISBN: 9781405291743
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 304
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 03/05/2018
Año de edición: 2018
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Jamila Gavin
Jamila Gavin MBE was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to both countries.The family finally settled in England where Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked for the BBC and became a mother of two children. It was then that she began writing children’s books, and felt a need to reflect the multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.