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Автор: Alkaf Hanna
Название: The Weight of Our Sky
ISBN: 9781534451926
Издательство: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1534451927
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 05.02.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 208 x 137 x 23
Поставляется из: США
Описание: A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.

Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mothers death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied.

A trip to the movies after school turns into a nightmare when the city erupts into violent race riots between the Chinese and the Malay. When gangsters come into the theater and hold movie-goers hostage, Mel, a Malay, is saved by a Chinese woman, but has to leave her best friend behind to die.

On their journey through town, Mel sees for herself the devastation caused by the riots.

In her village, a neighbor tells her that her mother, a nurse, was called in to help with the many bodies piling up at the hospital. Mel must survive on her own, with the help of a few kind strangers, until she finds her mother. But the djinn in her mind threatens her ability to cope.

The Weight of Our Sky, Alkaf Hanna