The Peacock Garden
$28.30
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2026
Summary
THE REDISCOVERED CLASSIC CHILDREN’S BOOK: A Muslim girl lives through the 1947 partition of India in this historical fiction book for kids ages 7-10 about finding strength and hope amidst loss.
The Peacock Garden is a story of a young Muslim girl named Zuni and her family’s near escape from the violence of the 1947 partition. Unwilling to leave India, they flee their village and find shelter in a nearby mosque where Zuni is comforted by the natural beauty of the mosque’s inner gardens…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896230601 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Anita Desai, Mei-Yum Low |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Kids |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 194mm |
| Audience Age: | 7-10 |
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Anita Desai
Anita Desai was born and educated in India. She is the author of many novels and short stories and has been short-listed for the Booker Prize three times for her novels Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting. Her children’s book The Village by the Sea won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. She is the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Literature.
Mei-Yim Low is a Malaysian-born artist and illustrator living in North London. She studied graphic design and illustration at Kingston University and has illustrated many children’s books. She is now focused on developing her personal artwork from observational studies of the surrounding landscape.
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