A walk across the sun : a novel
17-year-old Ahalya and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and alone after a tsunami rages through their coastal Indian home. They are taken in by criminals and forced into a world of violence and underground commerce. Half a world away, Washington D.C. attorney Thomas Clarke decides to pursue a pro bono sabbatical in Mumbai prosecuting human trafficers. When he hears of the sisters' plight, he decides to make it his personal mission to save them.
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Sisters > India > Fiction. Teenage girls > India > Fiction. Tsunamis > India > Coromandel Coast > Fiction. Disaster victims > India > Fiction. Human trafficking > India > Fiction. Child trafficking victims > Fiction. Tamil Nadu (India) > Fiction. Atlanta (Ga.) > Fiction. |
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- ISBN: 1443408247
- ISBN: 9781443408240
- Physical Description 437 pages
- Edition Harper Perennial trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher Toronto : Harper Perennial, 2014.
- Copyright ©2012
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 17.99 |
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Summary
Walk Across the Sun
The international bestseller, with 30,000 copies sold in Canada When a tsunami rages through their coastal home in India, sisters Ahalya and Sita are left orphaned and alone. Searching for protection in a devastated landscape, they are thrust into a seamy world of violence and underground commerce. In Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke, facing his own personal and professional crisis, makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical in Mumbai, India, with a non-profit organization that prosecutes the region's human traffickers. Though Clarke and the sisters are separated by half a world, their destinies are intertwined. Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a riveting showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals. Spanning three continents and two cultures, A Walk Across the Sun is a suspenseful, fast-paced and moving journey through the underworld of modern slavery and into the darkest-and most resilient- corners of the human heart.