The Wild Wind by Sheena Kalayil
Moving back and forth in time,The Wild Windis 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. By the Womens Prize longlisted author ofThe Others.'Her latest fiction follows Sissy Olikara, a US-based translator reflecting on her 1970s childhood in the outskirts of the Zambian capital LusakaThe end result is profound and long-lasting'
* Sunday Post *'After two acclaimed novels, Kalayil has scored a hat-trick with her third, an emotionally resonant, semi-autobiographical story about growth and change and coming to terms with loss'
* Herald *'The book is well written and has a very gentle, languid feel - you are slowly drawn into the story with lovely descriptions of nature and family life from the eyes of a child ... an involving book with good characters, story, and a setting that will be new to a lot of people - would recommend'
* The Bookmark Bookshop *'A tenderly written, fascinating and thoughtful semi-autobiographical novel. [It] looks at the presence of memories that bruise, that affect and create our future selves, it is wonderfully readable and gently provocative too'
-- Liz Robinson * LoveReading *'A finely structured family story ... It is written with serious respect for its characters and their story. There are no villains. It is about people in credible situations and people who are almost all trying to behave well. This is difficult to bring off and Kalayil is evidently a novelist of real talent'
-- Allan Massie * Yorkshire Post *Sheena Kalayil was born in Zambia in 1970 where her parents were teachers seconded from Kerala, India. She arrived in the UK aged eighteen and, after graduating, worked all over the world. She has a doctorate in Linguistics, teaches at the University of Manchester and lives near Manchester with her husband and two daughters. She is the author of The Bureau of Second Chances (Polygon, 2017), which won the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award and The Inheritance (Polygon, 2018).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846974915 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846974917 |
| Title | The Wild Wind |
| Author | Sheena Kalayil |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Birlinn General |
| Year published | 2019-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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