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The House That Faced the Cyclone
Paperback
Publisher: Keshav Kumar Phokeerdass
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The House That Faced the Cyclone
When Noa travels from London to his mother's childhood home in Mauritius, he expects sun, sea, and a quiet holiday. Instead, he finds a house with salt in its walls, a locked room no one will explain, and a silence where a name should be. As a cyclone builds off the coast, Noa uncovers cassette tapes, hidden photographs, and a family secret that has been erased for twenty years. His aunt Asha-rebellious, beloved, and vanished-left behind only her voice on crackling recordings. To piece together the truth, Noa must navigate the languages of his fractured family: English for politeness, Kreol for anger, French for memory, and Bhojpuri for wounds too deep to speak. A sweeping story of love, shame, and the storms we carry inside, The House That Faced the Cyclone is about what survives when everything else is swept away.
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