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The Eye of the Horse: 2 (Surya Trilogy)

The Eye of the Horse: 2 (Surya Trilogy)

by JamilaGavin (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $3.42

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

The dramatic second story in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning Jamila Gavin, author of Coram Boy. India 1948. The light has gone out of our world. Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated. In India, chaos and turmoil reign. In England, Jaspal and Marvinder's father is in prison. Jaspal cannot forgive him, and longs to return to his village in the Punjab where he feels he belongs. Marvinder has found friends, her first love, and her gift as a violinist. But how can she ignore her mother's voice calling her back to India? She is torn between two worlds. A story of the search for reconciliation, the sequel to Wheel of Surya is a beautifully crafted story sets against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan. No children's books about India conveys these issues and themes with the effortless ease of Jamila Gavin. Her diverse voice is the perfect introduction to this period of history, for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Morris Gleitzman's Once, and Katherine Rundell's The Wolf Wilder.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd
Published: 01 Jul 2001
ISBN 10: 0749747439
ISBN 13: 9780749747435
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years

Author Bio
Jamila was born in Mussoorie (Bombay), India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Her Indian father and English mother met as teachers in Iran and by the age of eleven she had lived in an Indian palace in the Punjab, a flat in a bombed out street in Shepherd's Bush, a bungalow in Poona, near Mumbai and a terraced house in Ealing. She settled into a little town cottage in Stroud, Gloucestershire twenty five years ago but she still loves to travel. Her books have included Grandpa Chatterji , which was short-listed for the Smarties Award and was dramatised for television on Channel 4 Schools, Monkey in the Stars which she then dramatised for a commission by the Polka Theatre, where it was performed in the autumn 2000 and The Surya Trilogy of which the first, The Wheel of Surya , was special runner up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1992, while the others were subsequently all shortlisted for the same award. Her novel, Coram Boy , set in 18th century England, won the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award and was made into a successful stage play at the National Theatre. Coram Boy was later dramatized by Jamila for Radio 4's Classic Serial programme in 2008. Her first radio play, The God at the Gate , broadcast as Play for Today on Radio 4 in September 2001, was shortlisted for the Richard Imison Award. She also wrote The Robber Baron's Daughter , published in August 2008.