โ Scribed by Deepa Anappara
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Discover the debut novel hailed as "brilliant" (Ian McEwan), "stunningly original" (Etaf Rum), "storytelling at its best" (Anne Enright), "a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate" (Chigozie Obioma).
In a sprawling Indian city, three friends venture into the most dangerous corners of to find their missing classmate. . . .
Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil, below a smoggy sky that doesn't let through a single blade of sunlight, and all the way at the end of the Purple metro line lies a jumble of tin-roofed homes where nine-year-old Jai lives with his family. From his doorway, he can spot the glittering lights of the city's fancy high-rises, and though his mother works as a maid in one, to him they seem a thousand miles away. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into this neighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy...
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