Where the river runs gold / Sita Brahmachari.
Material type:
TextPublisher: London : Orion Children's Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 340 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781510105416
- 1510105417
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | BRAHMACH SITA | Processing | 33111011357726 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
*Sita Brahmachari is a World Book Day author for 2021 with gorgeous short story, The River Whale!*
Two children must risk everything to escape their fate and find the impossible . . . bold adventure, timely climate change themes and breathtaking writing, from award-winning author Sita Brahmachari.
'Lavishly written and full of love of the natural world.' - Sunday Times
Shifa and her brother, Themba, live in Kairos City with their father, Nabil. The few live in luxury, whilst the millions like them crowd together in compounds, surviving on meagre rations and governed by Freedom Fields - the organisation that looks after you, as long as you opt in.
The bees have long disappeared; instead children must labour on farms, pollinating crops by hand so that the nation can eat. The farm Shifa and Themba are sent to is hard and cruel. Themba won't survive there and Shifa comes up with a plan to break them out. But they have no idea where they are - their only guide is a map drawn from the ramblings of a stranger.
The journey ahead is fraught with danger, but Shifa is strong and knows to listen to her instincts - to let love guide them home. The freedom of a nation depends on it . . .
Endorsed by Amnesty International.
"Illustrations copyright © Evan Hollingdale, 2019"--Title page verso.
"First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Hodder and Stoughton"--Title page verso.
Reprint. Originally published: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2019.
"Kairos City was beautiful once, before the storm. Now the flowerbeds are built over with brick, the bees are long gone and children are sent to Freedom Fields to pollinate crops by hand for the good of the nation. Eleven-year-old Shifa knows her twin Themba won't survive this harsh existence for long: they have to escape. But then she uncovers an impossible secret. If she can protect it on their perilous journey home, Shifa could change everything ..."--Page 4 of cover.