Dzsinnvadászok

By Deepa Anappara
Binding method: softboard glued
Publication: 2020
Publisher: Athenaeum Publishing
Page number: 336
In India, around one hundred and eighty children disappear without a trace every day - presumably as victims of human and organ traffickers. With her novel, Deepa Anappara, who has already won countless awards as a journalist, calls attention to this huge problem. Through the eyes of a child, the author presents the story of Dzai and his friends, who prefer to play detective in the imaginary ghetto of a big Indian city. The children guess that it was not a genie who took their classmate. He hasn't seen Bahadur for five days...