The Wild Wind
| Author | : Sheena Kalayil |
| Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2019-06-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781788852210 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1788852214 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild Award Vanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy's father leaves and returns to India. His departure brings about a chain of events which force Sissy into the adult world and have profound, long-lasting consequences. Moving back and forth in time as the adult Sissy reflects on her childhood, The Wild Wind is a haunting, absorbing coming-of-age tale of lost loves and lost innocence - one that takes readers on a journey into a young woman's past and its repercussions on her future. Featured on the Guardian's ' NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019' (https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/not-the-booker-prize)
