Jamila Gavin

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.In 18th-century Gloucestershire, the evil Otis Gardner preys on unmarried mothers, promising to take their babies (and their money) to Thomas Corams hospital for foundling children. Instead, he buries the babies and pockets the loot.But Otiss downfall is set in train when his half-witted son Meshak falls in love with a young girl, Melissa, and rescues the unwanted son she has had with a disgraced aristocrat. The child is brought up in Corams hospital, and proves to have inherited the startling musical gifts of his father - gifts that ultimately bring about his fathers redemption and a heartbreaking family reunion.Helen Edmundsons adaptation of Jamila Gavins award-winning novel, Coram Boy, was first performed at the National Theatre, London, in 2005. It won the Time Out Live Award for Best Play.A rich and almost Gothic drama- Philip Pullman

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The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children.

A beautiful new edition of the first volume in the Surya Trilogy by Whitbread award winning author Jamila Gavin India August 1947 Fleeing from their burnt out village as civil war rages in the Punjab Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother Jhoti Marvinder has already saved her brother s life once but now they both face a daily fight for survival Together they escape across India and nearly halfway around the world to England to find a father they hardly know in a new hostile culture A powerful story of culture class family and faith set against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan Perfect for fans of The Bone Sparrow Morris Gleitzman s Once and Katherine Rundell s The Wolf Wilder Jamila was born in Mussoorie India in the foothills of the Himalayas Her Indian father and English mother met as teachers in Iran and by the age of eleven she had lived in an Indian palace in the Punjab a flat in a bombed out street in Shepherd s Bush a bungalow in Poona near Mumbai and a terraced house in Ealing She settled into a little town cottage in Stroud Gloucestershire twenty five years ago but she still loves to travel She won the Whitbread Children s Book of the Year award with her book Coram Boy in 2000

Diez cuentos procedentes de todos los rincones del planeta, cuyas raíces est n profundamente arraigadas en la vida espiritual y cultural de cada país, pero con temas presentes en todo el mundo: la lucha entre el bien y el mal, los peligros de la desobediencia y la falta de respeto hacia la naturaleza, o la importancia del valor y el saber. Se trata de cuentos repletos de misterio, ingenio y sabiduría que han sobrevivido durante siglos y han sido transmitidos de padres a hijos.

En la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII, Otis Gardiner, el hombre de Coram, hace siniestros negocios con los niños no deseados de mujeres ricas y pobres. Meshak, su hijo retardado, atormentado por las atrocidades de su padre, decide salvar al hijo ilegitimo de Melissa, su angel, y Alexander Ashbrook, un aristocrata desheredado por su familia debido a su devocion por la musica.

Depuis que le monde est monde, les diamants ont fait couler plus de sang qu''aucune autre pierre, on les surnomme pierres de sang. Avec pour tout bagage un de ces superbes joyaux, Filippo s''embarque sur un navire en partance pour les Indes. Il espere ainsi acheter la liberte de son pere, emprisonne par un puissant prince afghan. Commence alors un perilleux voyage qui le menera de Venise aux montagnes de l''Orient. Une epopee fastueuse dans la lignee des plus grands romans d''aventures. Parcourez le monde du XVIIe siecle en compagnie de personnages passionnes et courageux.