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Book cover of The Djinn waits a hundred years
Khan, Shubnum
Reviewed by: Daryl M., Librarian, West Valley Regional Branch Library
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment building will help both of them. The existing tenants, an eccentric group of older women, along with the landlord, a man known as Doctor, agree on very little, with one exception: the house is haunted.Sana is familiar with ghosts. She was born half of a pair of conjoined twins and has been haunted by the ghost of her twin sister since her death shortly after the surgery separating them.Read Full Review

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