02999cam a2200373 i 4500 1165096742 TxAuBib 20240130120000.0 230123s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023002965 9780593653456 hardcover 0593653459 hardcover (OCoLC)1365063263 TxAuBib rda Khan, Shubnum, author. The Djinn waits a hundred years / Shubnum Khan. [New York : Viking, [2024] ©2024. 308 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret-and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along. Sublime, heart-wrenching, and lyrically stunning-with a cast of characters that will have you crying from both laughter and sorrow-Paper Flowers is a haunting, a love story, and a mystery, all twined beautifully into one young girl's search for belonging"-- Provided by publisher. 20240130. Haunted houses Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Jinn Fiction. Boardinghouses Fiction. Eccentrics and eccentricities Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Durban (South Africa) Fiction. South Africa Fiction. TXKIP