Books with title New Windmills: Old Mali and the Boy

In the half-light of an Indian jungle a youth and an old man act out the timeless drama of a boy's coming of age. Old Mali is a gardener, dreaming, as his gnarled fingers work the soil, of his youthful exploits as a hunter. The boy is enthralled by Mali's tales of greet hunts and persuades the old man to take him deep into the jungle. The sudden clashing sound of a hidden trap closing on Mali's leg transforms the excursion into a nightmare. And the resolution of this suspenseful, taut novel becomes a shattering but marvelously enriching experience.