by Jamila Gavin · Mammoth · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749715823
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«The Wheel of Surya» is Jamila Gavin's young adult adventure novel, published by Mammoth in paperback (288 pages, in English).
The story is set in 1947, during India's independence and the partition with Pakistan. After the violence that forces their family to leave their village, siblings Jaspal and Marvinder travel to England in search of their father, a student there. Culture, class, faith and family intertwine in a story of survival and hope.
First instalment of Jamila Gavin's Surya trilogy. The work was originally published in 1992; this Mammoth edition is from 1994.
Suitable reading for young people and for those seeking historical fiction about India and the 1947 partition.
Jamila Gavin is a British writer who is known mainly for children's books, including several with Indian contexts.
