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The Wild Wind
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The Wild Wind
An Irish family's struggle, faith, and survival across generations
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About the Ebook
From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild Award
Vanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy's father leaves and returns to India.
His departure brings about a chain of events which force Sissy into the adult world and have profound, long-lasting consequences.
Moving back and forth in time as the adult Sissy reflects on her childhood, The Wild Wind is a haunting, absorbing coming-of-age tale of lost loves and lost innocence - one that takes readers on a journey into a young woman's past and its repercussions on her future.
Featured on the Guardian's 'NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019'
Why You'll Love This Ebook
- Discover a sweeping novel of an Irish family across generations
- Explore faith, struggle, and survival in vivid historical fiction
- Engage with richly drawn, emotionally powerful storytelling
- Read another celebrated title from Polygon - an imprint of Birlinn Ltd
Reviews
'After two acclaimed novels, Kalayil has scored a hat-trick — an emotionally resonant, semi-autobiographical story about growth and change and coming to terms with loss' The Herald
'Profound and long-lasting — her latest fiction is haunting and absorbing' Sunday Post
'A finely structured family story — Kalayil is evidently a novelist of real talent' Yorkshire Post
'A tenderly written, fascinating and thoughtful semi-autobiographical novel — wonderfully readable and gently provocative' LoveReading
About the Author
Sheena Kalayil was born in Zambia in 1970 where her parents were teachers seconded from Kerala, India. She arrived in the UK aged eighteen and, after graduating, worked all over the world. She has a doctorate in Linguistics, teaches at the University of Manchester and lives near Manchester with her husband and two daughters. She is the author of The Bureau of Second Chances (Polygon, 2017), which won the Writers' Guild Best First Novel Award and The Inheritance (Polygon, 2018).
Publication Details
Publisher: Polygon (an imprint of Birlinn Ltd)
Publication Date: 09 June 2019
Print Length: 340 pages (Ebook edition)
ISBN (Ebook): 9781788852210
Format: Ebook
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