Deepa Anappara

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Diversified Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780593207062
• ISBN-10: 0593207068
• Artikelnr.: 57064462

Autorenporträt

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 a Developing Asia Journalism Award, an Every Human has Rights Media Award, and a Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism. A portion of her debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, won the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize, the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award, and the Bridport/Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she is currently studying for a Ph.D. on a CHASE doctoral fellowship.

Rezensionen

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 Johanna Thomas-Corr The Times