Description: "A brilliant debut." --Ian McEwan "Storytelling at its best--not just sympathetic, vivid, and beautifully detailed, but completely assured and deft . . . We care about these characters from the first page and our concern for them is richly repaid." --Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering "A stunningly original tale . . . I stayed up late every night until I finished, reluctant to part from Deepa Anappara's heart-stealing characters." --Etaf Rum, New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man "[An] entrancing novel . . . full of humor, warmth, and heartbreak . . . Anappara paints all of her characters, even the lost ones, with deep empathy, and her prose is winningly exuberant. . . . Engaging characters, bright wit, and compelling storytelling make a tale that's bleak at its core profoundly moving." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A model of verisimilitude . . . [Jai] comes to life on the page to live on in readers' memories." -- Booklist "[Anappara's] bright, propulsive prose . . . only accentuates the seriousness of her subject: the disappearance of children from villages in India, a real-life issue give intimate treatment here." -- Library Journal " Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is a moving and confident novel about the preciousness of life. The storytelling is distinctive and immersive." --Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant "Deepa Anappara is a writer of considerable talent. This is a wonderful, energetic book filled with humour and pathos. Charming, sensitive and deeply moving." --Nathan Filer, Costa Book Award-winning author of The Shock of the Fall "The children at the heart of this story will stay with you long after you turn the last page . . . A wonderful debut." --Christie Watson, bestselling author of The Language of Kindness "A magnificent achievement: the endeavours of the Djinn Patrol offer us a captivating world of wit, warmth and heartbreak, beautifully crafted through a child's unique perspective." --Mahesh Rao, author of Polite Society "Extraordinarily good, deeply moving and thought provoking with brilliant characterization . . . A very important book." --Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange "A profoundly emphatic work of creative genius that will stay with you forever." --Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing "A richly textured rendition of a world little seen in Indian literature . . . There is no desire to smooth and tidy in fiction what is untidy in life, but instead there is a payoff for the reader in a story that is as quietly troubling as it is convincing." --Mridula Koshy, author of If It Is Sweet

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