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Gavin, Jamila

 
9780008617189: My Soul, A Shining Tree
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 000861718X ISBN 13 : 9780008617189
Editeur : Farshore, 2025

Synopsis

🌟🌟One of the Telegraph’s 50 BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF ALL TIME🌟🌟

A stunning and heartbreaking new novel from Jamila Gavin, the bestselling and award-winning author of Coram Boy and The Wheel of Surya.

“Flawless” ― Telegraph

“A must-read” ― The Times

“Exceptional” ― The Bookseller Children’s Book of the Month

Based on the true story of Indian WWI gunner and recipient of the Victoria Cross, Khudadad Khan. The story is told from four perspectives: Lotte, a Belgian farmgirl whose village is the flashpoint for a battle; Ernst, a German teenage cavalry soldier whose grandiose dreams of war lie in tatters; Khudadad Khan, the gunner fighting with the British Army; and a wild walnut tree.

When Lotte’s farm is destroyed in the fighting, she and her sister flee with their young neighbour Michael, to take refuge beneath the walnut tree on the ridge ― a ridge currently being defended from the encroaching Germans by Indian gunner Khudadad Khan. There, they are joined by traumatised German soldier Ernst, whose horse lies lost in the trenches of the battle raging below. As their perspectives converge, their shared humanity emerges as a light in the darkness of war, safe beneath the branches of the walnut tree that shelters them all.

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À propos de l'auteur

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 that ran side by side throughout her life and always made her feel she belonged to both countries. Jamila’s family moved to England when she was 11. She studied music and worked for the BBC before having a family of her own and becoming a children’s writer, wanting to reflect the multicultural world in which she and her children now lived.

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Éditeur
Farshore
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
000861718X
ISBN 13 
9780008617189
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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