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Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld--and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade. When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for the convent where they attend school. They are abducted almost immediately and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, beginning a hellish descent into the bowels of the sex trade. Halfway across the world, Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crisis-and makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical working in India for an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. There, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the trade in human flesh, and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. Learning of the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a riveting showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals.
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"Addison has written a novel that is beautiful in its story and also important in its message. "A Walk Across the Sun" deserves a wide audience." --John Grisham "Plenty of action and travel ...an insightful take on the all-too-real problems of international human trafficking. "--"Booklist Online"" ""Chilling, suspenseful, and powerful...The story is compelling, but the message is greater and will leave an impact on everyone who picks up the book. Readers will mourn the injustices depicted and celebrate the triumphs long after the last page is turned."-"Library Journal""" "[An] ambitious compassionate debut." --"Christian Science Monitor""" "A pulse-revving novel with a serious message." --"O, The Oprah Magazine"
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Ahalya Ghai and her younger sister Sita are as close as sisters can be. But their childhood ends abruptly one day when a tsunami rips through their Indian village. Destitute and alone, their only hope is to find refuge at a convent many miles away. The moment they hitch a lift their fate is sealed. Washington lawyer Thomas Clarke is struggling to cope after the collapse of his family. He takes a sabbatical from his job and accepts a position with the Bombay branch of an international anti-trafficking group. As his life becomes entwined with that of Ahalya and Sita, he makes it his mission to save them, as well as himself.
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- PublisherSterling
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1402792808
- ISBN 13 9781402792809
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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