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A review by mrsclicquot
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
4.0
magical realism + a “haunted” house (the djinn) + love story.
The imagery and beautiful language really caught me off guard, in a wonderful way. Such an engaging story about a house and its history and all the people who have lived in it.
In its glory days, the house belonged to a wealthy family and we get to follow their story as being told through the eye of Sana, our 15 year old protagonist.
Sana and her father move into the house after it had been left abandoned, it was now being used as apartments. Every tenant seems to have a past they would rather forget or are running from including Sana and her father.
Sana learns the history of the house and its previous inhabitants through journal entries that she finds. In them, she reads the love story of Meena, the owner of the journal and Akbar. The language used to express their feelings towards each other and the passages they used, it really moved me.
now all I want to do is brush up on my Hafez and Rumi.
The imagery and beautiful language really caught me off guard, in a wonderful way. Such an engaging story about a house and its history and all the people who have lived in it.
In its glory days, the house belonged to a wealthy family and we get to follow their story as being told through the eye of Sana, our 15 year old protagonist.
Sana and her father move into the house after it had been left abandoned, it was now being used as apartments. Every tenant seems to have a past they would rather forget or are running from including Sana and her father.
Sana learns the history of the house and its previous inhabitants through journal entries that she finds. In them, she reads the love story of Meena, the owner of the journal and Akbar. The language used to express their feelings towards each other and the passages they used, it really moved me.
now all I want to do is brush up on my Hafez and Rumi.