Sneha Mathan
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Language
English
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Orphaned at birth, the wild and headstrong Korobi Roy enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents. Still, she is troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents' deaths and clings fiercely to her only inheritance from them: a love note found hidden in her mother's book of poetry. Korobi's dreams come true when she finds just such a powerful love with the charming Rajat. Then her grandfather's sudden death reveals a devastating...
Author
Language
English
Description
Spellbinding in its narration, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is the story of an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live.
Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are fascinated by America. They keep lists of English vocabulary words and collect
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