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The Takamaka Key
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Publisher: Keshav Kumar Phokeerdass
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Takamaka Key
When investigative journalist Lira Voss travels to Mauritius to write a routine tourist piece about an ancient Takamaka tree and its legend, she expects superstition and local color-not a valley that does not appear on any map, an anchor fragment that returns to its branch when removed, and a voice that whispers You came back as if it has been waiting for her for generations. Drawn into a mystery that claimed her geologist grandfather in 1974 and her father years later, Lira descends beneath the island into the Memory Engine: an ancient, lonely consciousness that preserves every life, every loss, every secret. To save the souls of the men she loves-and to keep her own identity from being erased-she must teach the Engine what it has never known: the difference between remembering and feeling, between knowledge and love.
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