The lost child - Sarah Ash

This is a beautifully written and evocative fantasy - lush imagery and technicolor worldbuilding. The lost child of the title is the younger brother of the hero, Rehab, a member of the Tsiyonim, a race who live barely tolerated by the city's native people. A child is ritually murdered and left on a doorstep in the Tsyonim quarter. One again, the ghetto is the subject of suspicion and hatred and Rehab is unlucky enough to have been the one to find the body. As his people prepare to flee once more, Rehab is entrusted with a token that is one of the four cornerstones of his people's faith - a prayer shell that contains one of the four great powers that protect the Tsyonim and when combined will ensure their return to their lost homeland. THE LOST CHILD is a brilliantly imagined reworking of the myths of the Jewish diaspora.