num_pages: 320
description: Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea the djinn that haunts it and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previousAkbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now nearly a century since it was built it stands in ruins: an isolated boardinghouse for misfits seeking to forget their pasts and disappear into the mansions dark corridors.Until Sana. She and her father are the latest of Akbar Manzils long list of tenants seeking a new home after suffering painful loss. Unlike the others who choose not to look too closely at the mansions unsettling qualitiesthe strange assortment of bones in the overgrown garden the mysterious figure seen to move sometimes at nightshe is curious and questioning and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion. To the eerie and forgotten East Wing home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objectsand to the locked door at its end unopened for decades.Behind the door is a bedroom frozen in time with faded photographs of a couple in love and a worn diary that whispers of a dark past: the long-forgotten story of a young woman named Meena the original owners second wife who died there tragically a hundred years ago. Watching Sana from the rooms shadows is a grieving djinn an invisible spirit who once loved Meena and has haunted the mansion since her mysterious death. Obsessed with Meenas story and unaware of the creature that follows her Sana digs into the past like fingers into a wound awakening the memories of the house itselfand dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone living and dead at Akbar Manzil.Sublime heart-wrenching and lyrically stunning The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a haunting a love story and a mystery all twined beautifully into one young girls search for belonging.
language: English
title: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
publisher: Viking