The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil

The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil

By Shubnum Khan

Pages

303

Rating

3.91

Year

2024

HorrorFantasyMagical RealismFictionMysteryHistorical Fiction

Description

A haunting, a mystery and a long-forgotten love story intertwine in this tender, lyrical novel about a young girl’s search for belonging.

Sana and Meena will never meet. The two women share little beyond Akbar Manzil, the sprawling mansion they call home. When Meena fell in love with the owner of the house, it was the grandest residence on South Africa’s east coast, near Durban. Eight decades later, when Sana follows in her footsteps, the house is crumbling, shabby and dark. This is a place where people come to forget. Or to be forgotten.

Full of questions about her new home, Sana is drawn to the deserted east wing. Soon she begins to discover the tangled, troubling history of the house, dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone at Akbar Manzil — living and dead.

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