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Mauritius, The Island Beyond Time
Paperback
Publisher: Keshav Kumar Phokeerdass
Published: Oct 24 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Mauritius, The Island Beyond Time
When a strange storm lashes the coast of Mauritius, sixteen-year-old Teena Appadoo hears her name whispered on the wind in a language forgotten for centuries. The island her grandmother calls home is more than just land; it is a living being with a memory, and its Volcanic Heart is breaking. As coral reefs turn to bone and time itself begins to crack, Teena is ripped from her present and thrust into a breathtaking journey across the ages-from the mythic past where spirits and the last dodo roam, to a sterile future where her culture is a fading digital ghost.
To save her home, Teena must unite three shattered fragments of the island's soul. But a shadow of greed and forgetting stalks her through time, and the price of memory may be everything she loves. A sweeping tale of ecological magic, cultural identity, and a girl who must become the bridge between worlds to heal a island tearing itself apart.
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