Wheel of Surya

In the first book of the Surya Trilogy, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother, Jhoti, and flee across India and nearly halfway around the world to England to find a father they hardly know in a new, hostile culture. This powerful story of culture, class, family, and faith is set against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 03 May 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Jamila Gavin's Surya Trilogy is a beautiful new edition of the first volume, which was awarded the Whitbread Prize. The novel takes place in India in 1947, during the civil war in the Punjab. Marvinder and Jaspal, two brothers, are separated from their mother, Jhoti, as they flee from their burnt-out village. Marvinder has already saved his brother's life once, but now they face a daily struggle for survival. Together, they escape across India and nearly halfway around the world to England, to find a father they hardly know in a new, hostile culture.

The novel explores themes of culture, class, family, and faith set against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan. It is a powerful story that will resonate with fans of The Bone Sparrow, Morris Gleitzman's Once, and Katherine Rundell's The Wolf Wilder.

Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Her parents, an Indian father and an English mother, met as teachers in Iran and by the age of eleven, she had lived in various places, including an Indian palace in the Punjab, a flat in a bombed-out street in Shepherds Bush, a bungalow in Poona, near Mumbai, and a terraced house in Ealing. After settling in Stroud, Gloucestershire, for twenty-five years, she still loves to travel. In 2000, her book Coram Boy won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award.

Weight: 216g
Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781405291743