Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line : A Novel (Paperback)

from Twink

I always enjoy checking out lists of publisher recommended reads. I often find a hidden jewel I wouldn't have found on my own. Such is the case with Deepa Anappara's debut novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line. Djinn: "An intelligent spirit of lower rank than the angels, able to appear in human a...

from miss.mesmerized

When Bahadur, one of his classmates, goes missing, nine-year-old Jai is determined to solve this case. He has watched so many episodes of Police Patrol that he knows exactly how such a problem is to be treated. Together with his friends Pari and Faiz, he starts to investigate around Purple Line a...

from mooingzelda

[I received a proof of this book from the publisher in exchange for a review] I absolutely loved this book! I'm usually a little wary of novels with child narrators, but Djinn Patrol absolutely works in this respect. I really enjoyed seeing the world through Jai's eyes and thought he was very end...

from maryreinert

This book definitely got better as it went along. Set in a slum in a large Indian City, Jai is only a child, but is exposed to the worst the world can offer. He, his parents, and sister live near enough to the "hi-fi" apartments where his mother works as a servant in an apartment. Jai has two clo...

from brangwinn

Perhaps it's the reporter's instinct for detail that makes this debut book so riveting. As a journalist, Anappara saw a lot of poor neighborhoods desperate for the return of missing and most likely exploited children. In her creation of a young child as the protagonist in this story, she has crea...