ISBN: 9789350096376    Publisher: HACHETTE INDIA Year of publishing: 2015     Format:  Hardback No of Pages: 360        Language: English

This is the story of Meiji - the only girl who has remained untouched and unmutilated in a country that has savaged its entire female population. Having saved her from certain death in the new Dark Age that has come upon the world, her guardian, Youngest, has transported her to the onlyplace where she can remain safe - an Island where wounded girls are, sometimes literally, stitched back together and given a new life.But theIsland itself is a menacing place, and Meiji may be in more danger than ever before. To see what has become of his beloved girl, Youngest mustfind a way to infiltrate its odd environs while keeping the constantly assaulting voice in his head at bay. His struggles against the surrealinhabitants of a world gone wrong and with his own transformed identity only serve to steel his efforts to find the girl, and escape oncemore...The Island of Lost Girls showcases, yet again, Manjula Padmanabhan's genius at creating searing landscapes and alternate, sometimesbrutal, worlds while reaffirming the beauty and the ugliness, the cruelty and the tremendous compassion that essentially make us human.
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Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer, artist and playwright. She grew up in Europe and Southeast Asia, and returned to India as a teenager in the late 1960s. The popular comic strip character, Suki, created by Manjula, appeared in the Sunday Observer in Bombay and later in the Pioneer inNew Delhi through the 1980s and 1990s. In 1997, her play Harvest won first prize in the Onassis Prize for Theatre in Greece. She is the authorof several critically acclaimed books, including Getting There, Hot Death, Cold Soup, Kleptomania and Three Virgins and Other Stories, and anumber of books for children as author-illustrator, among them Mouse Attack and a series of picture puzzle books. Her previous novel,Escape, in which the characters Youngest and Meiji were first introduced, is being reissued by Hachette India in 2015
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