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Excerpt from The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

A Novel

by Shubnum Khan
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  • Jan 9, 2024, 320 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jan 2025, 320 pages
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The window is empty.

She sighs in relief and jumps out of the car and begins helping her father off-load the luggage. As she heaves out bags, she hears the front door open. In a pool of yellow light in the doorway stands an old man leaning on a cane. He smiles, limping as he comes toward them.

"Welcome!" he calls out.

Behind him the lights in the house stutter and go off.

Excerpted from The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan. Copyright © 2024 by Shubnum Khan. Excerpted by permission of Viking. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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