{"product_id":"the-peacock-garden-isbn-9798896230601","title":"The Peacock Garden","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Peacock Garden\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and the peacocks who live there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Anita Desai’s delicately balanced prose, the adults are admirably direct and honest with the children. “These are bad times,” her father says. “It is safer to stay here till everyone is calm again.” Desai takes in a wide view of the world, the difficult political reality as well as the gentler gifts of the physical world: big-eyed bullocks, loquat and banyan trees, sweet-scented jasmine bushes. The abundance of the gardens is a counterweight to the loss of Zuni’s former life in the village, and she finds herself not entirely sad to make this place her new home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis lost classic of historical fiction for young readers, now back in print, shows that hope and beauty can be found in the midst of loss and destruction.\u003cb\u003eAnita Desai \u003c\/b\u003eis a novelist, short-story writer, and author of children’s books. She was born in Mussoorie, India, and studied at Delhi University. Desai is the author of several novels, including \u003ci\u003eFire on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eClear Light of Day\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Custody\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFasting, Feasting\u003c\/i\u003e, each of which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and of Girton College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Desai is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.","brand":"NYRB Kids","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532207468773,"sku":"NP9798896230601","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798896230601.jpg?v=1773183062","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-peacock-garden-isbn-9798896230601","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}