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Children of the Quicksands

Efua Traoré

4.06/5 (564 ratings)

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City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village.

There’s no TV, internet or phone. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside.

Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but she’s tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring. Caught in the sinking red quicksand of a forbidden lake, her fantastical journey begins …

Winner of the 2019 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, Children of the Quicksands is a richly imagined magical realist adventure set in West Africa by a new voice in children’s writing, Efua Traoré.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 288 pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: Chicken House

Edition:: 1

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 191332236X

ISBN13:: 9781913322366

kindle Asin:: B09KMP4BQM

Children of the Quicksands

Efua Traoré

4.06/5 (564 ratings)

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City girl Simi is sent to stay with her long-lost grandmother in a remote Nigerian village.

There’s no TV, internet or phone. Not a single human-made sound can be heard at night, just the noise of birds and animals rustling in the dark forest outside.

Her witchlike grandmother dispenses advice and herbal medicine to the village, but she’s tight lipped about their family history. Something must have happened, but what? Determined to find out, Simi disobeys her grandmother and goes exploring. Caught in the sinking red quicksand of a forbidden lake, her fantastical journey begins …

Winner of the 2019 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, Children of the Quicksands is a richly imagined magical realist adventure set in West Africa by a new voice in children’s writing, Efua Traoré.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 288 pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: Chicken House

Edition:: 1

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 191332236X

ISBN13:: 9781913322366

kindle Asin:: B09KMP4BQM

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