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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

  • Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

  • 'Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer

    'I love this book...I just fell into it' Tayari Jones

    We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see.

    Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job).

    When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the bazaar at night, and even the railway station at the end of the Purple Line. But kids continue to vanish, and the trio must confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force and soul-snatching djinns in order to uncover the truth

    'A heartrending tale' The Times

    'Djinn Patrol is storytelling at its best' Anne Enright

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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

When local children begin to go missing on the edge of a sprawling Indian city, Jai and his friends take matters into their own hands in order to uncover the truth. Immerse yourself in the story from the next unforgettable child narrator, for fans of Midnight’s Children and The Trouble with Goats and Sheep.

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 the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the Every Human has Rights Media Awards, and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism. A partial of her debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, the Bridport/Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and is currently studying for a PhD on a CHASE doctoral fellowship. www.deepa-anappara.com

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