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That Year at Manikoil

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As a child, Aditi greatly enjoyed sports and once outswam a porpoise. She later had a chequered c... Read More

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As a child, Aditi greatly enjoyed sports and once outswam a porpoise. She later had a chequered career that included working as a pet food taster. In her downtime, she enjoys long-distance running and partying with her friends on Friday nights. Just kidding. It's all fiction, just like her books.

Aditi Krishnakumar works in the finance industry in Singapore, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She won the Scholastic Asian Book Award in 2016.

Madras, 1944

While World War II rages in Europe and the Japanese army draws closer to India, Raji and her sisters are sent off with their mother to stay in Manikoil, her mother's family village. But with her brother now a soldier in the British Indian Army and refugees fleeing from Malaya, Burma and other eastern countries back to India, Manikoil is no longer the peaceful haven it once was.

And while there is hope of Independence in the air, Raji is uncertain whether it will come to pass-and what it will truly mean for her and her family.

The Songs of Freedom series explores the lives of children across India during the struggle for independence.

Despite being individual tales, the two books serendipitously pose several similar questions. Both, Sakina and Raji, find themselves judging their role in it all, and whether they agree with the adults that surround them.

Like Sakina, Raji too battles with the idea of what is right in the face of potential freedom. Her war-enlisted brother thinks that the freedom promised to them at the end of the war is inevitable but everyone else says it is not their war to fight.

When it comes to Aditi's story, it is difficult not to well up while reading the letters Gopu anna writes to Raji from the war front. Interestingly, some sentences are struck off (while still legible) by the 'Military Censor'. Such a small addition adds great depth to the words and what they mean for the family.

Product Details

Title: That Year at Manikoil
Author: Aditi Krishnakumar
SKU: BK0444050
EAN: 9780143454267
Language: English
Binding: Paperback

About Author

As a child, Aditi greatly enjoyed sports and once outswam a porpoise. She later had a chequered career that included working as a pet food taster. In her downtime, she enjoys long-distance running and partying with her friends on Friday nights. Just kidding. It's all fiction, just like her books.

Aditi Krishnakumar works in the finance industry in Singapore, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She won the Scholastic Asian Book Award in 2016.

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