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Title
The wheel of Surya

Author
Jamila Gavin

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Egmont UK Ltd

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20010701

Description

The dramatic first volume in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award-winning author of Coram Boy, Jamila Gavin.

India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother, Jhoti. Marvinder has already saved her brother's life once, but now they both face a daily fight for survival.

Together they escape across India and nearly halfway around the world to England, to find a father they hardly know in a new, hostile culture...

A story touching on culture, class, faith and family set against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan. No children's books about India conveys these issues and themes with the effortless ease of Jamila Gavin. Her diverse voice is the perfect introduction to this period of history, for fans of The Bone Sparrow, Morris Gleitzman's Once, and Katherine Rundell's The Wolf Wilder.

Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to both countries.

The family finally settled in England where Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked for the BBC and became a mother of two children. It was then that she began writing children's books, and felt a need to reflect the multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.

Since her first book,The Magic Orange Treewas published in 1979, she has been writing steadily, producing collections of short stories and several teenage novels for the whole age range from six to sixteen, includingGrandpa Chatterji, which was short-listed for the Smarties Award and was dramatised for television on Channel 4 Schools, and The Surya Trilogy of which the first,The Wheel of Surya,was runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1992.

Her book,Coram Boy,a novel for young adults, was published to critical acclaim in 2000 and won the Children's Whitbread Award, as well as being short listed for the Carnegie Medal. It was subsequently adapted for the stage and had two highly successful runs at the National Theatre in 2005/6 and on Broadway.

Jamila's latest book is Blackberry Blue and Other Fairy Tales published by Tamarind.

Away from story writing Jamila has written for television, radio and the stage. Her first original radio play,The God at The Gatewas broadcast on Radio 4 and she is currently adapting Coram Boy for Radio 4's Classic Serial, to be broadcast this December. She adapted her children's book,The Monkey in the Starsas a play for the Polka Theatre, which was followed up by a Polka commission for a play calledJust So, based on Rudyard Kipling'sJust So stories. She also dramatisedGrandpa Chatterjifor Channel 4 Schools that starred Roshan Seth and Saeed Jaffrey.

In between her novels, Jamila has written numerous short stories, and involved herself in charitable projects such as abridgingMeasure for Measurefor the Shakespeare Schools Festival.

Jamila has lived in Gloucestershire for over thirty years. She is a regular visitor to the schools and libraries all over the country.

Type
BOOK

Edition
New edition

Keyword Index
India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949 - Children - Fiction.|India - Social conditions - 1947- - Fiction.|Young adult fiction.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
287

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