The weight of our sky, Hanna Alkaf
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The weight of our sky, Hanna Alkaf
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The weight of our sky
Responsibility statement
Hanna Alkaf
Summary
Melati Ahmad believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions in her home city of Kuala Lumpur boil over. The Chinese and Malays are at war, and Mel and her mother become separated. With the city in flames and a curfew in effect, it will take the help of a Chinese boy named Vincent and all of the courage and grit in Melati's arsenal to overcome the violence on the streets, her own prejudices, and her djinn's surging power, if she wants to make it back to the one person she can't risk losing.--adapted from jacket
Target audience
adolescent
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Subject
- Young adult works
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Fiction
- Mental illness -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Race riots -- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- History
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Malaysia + Kuala Lumpur
- Chinese -- Malaysia -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Malays (Asian people) -- Fiction
Content
Author
Other version
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject14
- Young adult works
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Fiction
- Mental illness -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Race riots -- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- History
- Ethnic relations -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Malaysia + Kuala Lumpur
- Chinese -- Malaysia -- Fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Malays (Asian people) -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1