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Imprint: Chatto & Windus
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Published: 30/01/2020
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ISBN: 9781784743086
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 33mm x 162mm
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Weight: 573g
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RRP: £14.99
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
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2020's most powerful debut and a BBC Radio 2 book club pick
'A moving and confident novel about the preciousness of life' Nikesh Shukla
'A brilliant debut' (Ian McEwan) picked as one to watch by the Guardian, Observer, Vogue and Stylist
Three weeks ago I was only a schoolkid but now I’m a detective and also a tea-shop boy…
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.
'Djinn Patrol is storytelling at its best’ Anne Enright, Booker-prize winning author of The Gathering
‘Irresistibly brimming with character and personality, I couldn’t stop picking it up for the bright lights of the writing. I also love the fact that it addresses an important issue while opening a window on everyday life in India. Wonderful’ Diana Evans
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Imprint: Chatto & Windus
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Published: 30/01/2020
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ISBN: 9781784743086
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 240mm x 33mm x 162mm
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Weight: 573g
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RRP: £14.99
Reviews
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"Djinn Patrol is storytelling at its best. The prose is not just sympathetic, vivid, and beautifully detailed, but also completely assured and deft. We care about these characters from the first page and our concern for them is richly repaid"
Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering
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"Anappara brings [the bazaar] brilliantly to vibrant, chaotic life... The amateur detectives and their schemes are utterly winning, effervescing off the page, but the tone gradually darkens as more children disappear, reflecting terrible actual statistics... [A] stand-out debut"
Daily Mail
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"A brilliant debut"
Ian McEwan, Sunday Times bestselling author of Atonement
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"Deepa Anappara is a writer of considerable talent. This is a wonderful, energetic book filled with humour and pathos. Charming, sensitive and deeply moving"
Nathan Filer, Costa Prize-winning author of The Shock of the Fall
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"In this thrilling reading experience, Deepa Anappara creates a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is an entertaining, wonderful debut"
Chigozie Obioma, Booker-prize shortlisted author of An Orchestra of Minorities
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"A moving and confident novel about the preciousness of life. The storytelling is distinctive and immersive"
Nikesh Shukla, author and editor of The Good Immigrant
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"Irresistibly brimming with character and personality, I couldn’t stop picking it up for the bright lights of the writing. I also love the fact that it addresses an important issue while opening a window on everyday life in India. Wonderful."
Diana Evans
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"The children at the heart of this story will stay with you long after you turn the last page… a wonderful debut"
Christie Watson, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Language of Kindness
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"Extraordinarily good, deeply moving and thought provoking with brilliant characterisation. A very important book"
Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange
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"A stunningly original tale. I stayed up late every night until I finished, reluctant to part from Deepa Anappara’s heart-stealing characters"
Etaf Rum, New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man
