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Tiffin


No. of pages 208

Published: 2014

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Great for age 9-12 years

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A charming, heartbreaking and beautifully evocative novel about fate, friendship and familyEvery day in the vast and vibrant city of Bombay, thousands of dabbawalla delivery-men transport hundreds of thousands of freshly prepared lunches in tiffin boxes, straight from workers' homes and into their offices. Even though the city is a maze of streets, and the tiffins carry a delivery code only dabbawallas can understand, no lunch ever gets lost. Well, almost never... When a secret note placed in a tiffin box goes astray, the consequences for a young boy are devastating. Separated from his mother and forced to work as a slave in a cafe, Kunal is sure that if he could just find his family, his life and his fortunes would change forever. Recruiting the help of a dabbawalla friend, Kunal vows to find his mother - and it seems the answer may lie with the tiffins once more. If a lost note was the beginning of his destiny, can he use another to change it?

 

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hot Key Books .

A native of Mumbai (Bombay), Mahtab Narsimhan has always been fascinated by Indian mythology. This comes together with the unique cultural and spiritual energies of her homeland in her exciting first novel, The Third Eye . Mahtab lives in Toronto with her husband, Rahul, and her son, Aftab.

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards
This book was recognised in the Red Maple - Fiction category by the Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Awards.

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