"The beauty of Busjeet's splendid, often breathtaking book is, like
the best stories of journeys to young adulthood, the precious and
well-observed and heartbreaking details of day-to-day life." Edward P.
Jones, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Known World
Vinod
Busjeet's sweeping debut novel explores the intimate struggle for
independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured
laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean.
In
the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan is a young boy yet to learn the truth beyond
the rumors of his family's fractured histories--an alliance, as his
mother says, of two bankrupt families. In evocative chapters, the first
two decades of Vishnu's life in Mauritius unfolds with heart wrenching
closeness as he battles to experience the world beyond, and the
cultural, political, and familial turmoil that hold on to him.
Through gorgeous and precise language, Silent Winds, Dry Seas
conjures the spirit and rich life of Mauritius, even as its diverse
peoples live under colonial rule. Weaving the soaring hopes, fierce
love, and heart-breaking tragedies of Vishnu's proud Mauritian family
together with his country's turbulent path to gain independence, Busjeet
masterfully evokes the epic sweep of history in the intimate moments of
a boy's life.
Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic,
powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of
colonialism, of tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a
family will sacrifice for its children to thrive.
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