Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

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Djinn Patrol depicts a young child who attempts to investigate a mystery involving the disappearance of children from an impoverished slum. [6] [7] It tells of children living in a slum in a fictional Indian city who set out to find a classmate who has disappeared. [1] [6] [8] A reviewer for Kirkus compared the setting to that of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers. [9] Anappara's novel makes use of several genres, including detective fiction, mystery, satire, and Bildungsroman. [10] A review in The New York Times noted that Djinn Patrol "announces the arrival of a literary supernova". [6] Author [ edit ]

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Deepa Anappara Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Deepa Anappara

First and foremost, a large thank you to NetGalley, Deepa Anappara and Penguin Random House Canada for providing me with a copy of this publication, which allows me to provide you with an unbiased review. Kudos, Madam Anappara, for shedding some light on the horrors of missing children. I trust many will find the pieces I could not in this novel and give you the praise you seek. Will Jai and his two friends manage to find any of the missing youngsters or any evidence of what happened to them? Who is committing these atrocious crimes? What is the motivation? Will his sister be found in time? What will be the aftermath for their families and neighbours? This book was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, and it is most definitely worthy. Seamlessly written, with a powerful and critical message, I thank the author for this most thoughtful and thought-provoking book. When a child goes missing, nine-year-old Jai decides to use his amateur sleuthing skills to find the missing boy. He enlists his best friends, Pari and Faiz, to help him. But try as the trio might, they can’t stop more children from going missing. But with no substantial clues to follow, and absolutely no help forthcoming from the police or the politicians in charge of the area, should the young detectives admit defeat, or can they solve this case before someone dear to them goes missing? Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anapparasono vicini ma sembrano distanti, perché nel mezzo c’è la discarica e anche un muro alto di mattoni con sopra il filo spinato”. My favourite parts of this book were the parts where Jai's friend, Faiz, would state that the djinn were stealing the souls of the children. Brought up casually in conversation, I think this served several important purposes. It added a supernatural air of mystery to the story and it reinforced our perception of these children's innocence, but it also created a beautiful metaphor for the true malignant cause of the disappearances.

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara review – a

I appreciate these poignant social commentaries in Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line—it would be easy to gloss over these harsh realities to portray a more wholesome image of India to readers, but Anappara doesn’t shy away from these truths in her book. Like the lost children, like the legendary djinns, the smog is omnipresent throughout the text. The setting is such that spaces conveniently compress and bloat: there’s the basti versus the “hi-fi” flats which are close by, “but seem far because of the rubbish ground in between,” or the Purple Line metro, where “[t]he noise of the road outside streams into the station but the walls hush them” and where Jai says it feels “like we are in a foreign country.” Within the squashed-together, suffocating basti life, this makes eavesdropping on adult conversations, nagging neighbors, and stalking suspects easier. Anyone’s business is everyone’s business, and when a child goes missing, or the JCB bulldozers are a-coming, the community comes together in solidarity (before it is deeply divided, dangerously and violently, by rumors along religious lines). Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is a novel by Deepa Anappara, published in 2020. Her debut novel, [1] it received wide praise and won the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize in 2019. [2] Djinn Patrol is shortlisted for the 2020 JCB Prize and was longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. [3] [4] The novel won the 2021 Edgar Award for Best Novel. [5] Book [ edit ] Extraordinarily good, deeply moving and thought provoking with brilliant characterization . . .A very important book.” —Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange It starts to feel repetitive; the book follows a pattern: another child disappears, the basti reacts, the police are indifferent, Jai and his friends try to investigate (now staying closer to the basti but with very limited success) and we get a section from the viewpoint of the disappeared child (but with no real hints as to what happened to them).What really makes the book though is the closing section – where the book takes a much darker twist. Firstly with the disappearances coming even closer to home for Jai and with secondly a likely (although still open ended) resolution of the terrible truth behind the disappearances. Set in Metropolitan India, this atmospheric novel follows Jai and his two friends as they search for their missing classmate. Obsessed with a police television show, Jai is convinced that he will be able to find the boy, even when the police themselves are indifferent about the case. As more and more children go missing, however, it becomes clear that there is something insidious going on, and Jai's life will be forever changed by the events that unfold... A dazzling journey into the heart of India and its most vulnerable citizens - its impoverished and disenfranchised children. A novel at once brimming with the wonder of childhood innocence, and constrained by the heartache of living amidst injustice and prejudice. Deepa Anappara shows us a modern, dangerously divided India that has long needed to be seen.” —Nazanine Hozar, author of Aria