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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Dancing to the Flute
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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.' (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Dedication: This book is for my babies Shekha, Shivali and Tara and my son Sohum.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
      person or book cover
      Courtesy of Allen & Unwin.
      Extent: 342p.
      ISBN: 9781742378572 (pbk.)
    • Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,: Alma , 2013 .
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      Extent: 311p.
      ISBN: 9781846882388
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Atria Books ,
      2013 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 5th 2013
      ISBN: 9781451672046
Alternative title: Der klang der sehnsucht : roman
Language: German
    • Berlin,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Insel Verlag ,
      2012 .
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      Extent: 309p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 12 March 2012
      ISBN: 9783458358213

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Music as Empowerment : Espousing Cosmopolitanism in Indo–Australian Writer Manisha Jolie Amin’s Dancing to the Flute Anjutha Ranganathan , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia–India Encounters 2024; (p. 207-221)
[Review] Dancing to the Flute Diana Carroll , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 49)

— Review of Dancing to the Flute Manisha Jolie Amin , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 April 2012; (p. 30)

— Review of Dancing to the Flute Manisha Jolie Amin , 2012 single work novel
Take Three : Fiction Ian McFarlane , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 15 April 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of Dancing to the Flute Manisha Jolie Amin , 2012 single work novel ; The Memory Tree Tess Evans , 2012 single work novel
Take Three : Fiction Ian McFarlane , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 15 April 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of Dancing to the Flute Manisha Jolie Amin , 2012 single work novel ; The Memory Tree Tess Evans , 2012 single work novel
Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 21 April 2012; (p. 30)

— Review of Dancing to the Flute Manisha Jolie Amin , 2012 single work novel
[Review] Dancing to the Flute Diana Carroll , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 344 2012; (p. 49)

— Review of Dancing to the Flute Manisha Jolie Amin , 2012 single work novel
Music as Empowerment : Espousing Cosmopolitanism in Indo–Australian Writer Manisha Jolie Amin’s Dancing to the Flute Anjutha Ranganathan , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia–India Encounters 2024; (p. 207-221)
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