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Abandoned as a young child, Kalu, a cheeky street kid, has against all odds carved out a life for himself in rural India. In the quiet village of Hastinapore, Kalu makes friends: Bal, the solitary buffalo boy, and Malti, a gentle servant girl, who, with her mistress, Ganga Ba, has watched out for Kalu from the first day. Perched high in the branches of a banyan tree, Kalu chooses a leaf, rolls it tightly and, doing what he’s done for as long as he can remember, blows through it. His pure simple notes dance through the air attracting a travelling healer whose interest will change Kalu’s life forever, setting him on a path he would never have dreamed possible, testing his self-belief and his friendships. With all the energy and colour of India and its people, Dancing to the Flute is a magical, heart-warming story of this community’s joys and sorrows, the nature of friendship and the astonishing transformative powers of music.
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Dancing to the Flute, Manisha Jolie Amin
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Dancing to the Flute
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Manisha Jolie Amin
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin Australia
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 1742378579
- ISBN13
- 9781742378572
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Music Theme, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Contemporary Romance, Culture and Society, Death, Coming Of Age, India, Young Adult Romance, Mourning, Fate, Weddings, Pain, Flute
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Abandoned as a young child, Kalu, a cheeky street kid, has against all odds carved out a life for himself in rural India. In the quiet village of Hastinapore, Kalu makes friends: Bal, the solitary buffalo boy, and Malti, a gentle servant girl, who, with her mistress, Ganga Ba, has watched out for Kalu from the first day. Perched high in the branches of a banyan tree, Kalu chooses a leaf, rolls it tightly and, doing what he’s done for as long as he can remember, blows through it. His pure simple notes dance through the air attracting a travelling healer whose interest will change Kalu’s life forever, setting him on a path he would never have dreamed possible, testing his self-belief and his friendships. With all the energy and colour of India and its people, Dancing to the Flute is a magical, heart-warming story of this community’s joys and sorrows, the nature of friendship and the astonishing transformative powers of music.