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Others pass down the quiet habits of survival.

In Kampala, every day begins with small rituals no one questions anymore: schoolbooks wrapped against rain, papers lifted away from puddles, forms checked and rechecked before children leave for school. What was once temporary has slowly become ordinary.

Inside a modest family home, Jaya grows up surrounded by fading transit records, corrected addresses, old photographs, school forms, and documents carried across generations. At first they seem like fragments of the past - reminders of movement, uncertainty, and lives interrupted long ago.

But as storms return season after season and the same careful routines repeat themselves inside the house, Jaya begins to realise something unsettling: the records were never only preserving history. They were teaching each generation how to live inside instability without falling apart.

Outside, life in the city continues as always. Children play football in flooded lanes. Buses grind through rain-soaked streets. Families laugh, argue, eat, work, and carry on. Yet beneath the ordinary rhythm of daily life, an invisible inheritance moves quietly from parent to child - the instinct to protect fragile things before the next storm arrives.

The Ledger is a deeply atmospheric and emotionally powerful novel about memory, migration, family, and the quiet ways uncertainty reshapes ordinary lives across generations.

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• Plný název: The Ledger
• Autor: Abbas Sadak
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 366
• EAN: 9781066744947
• ISBN: 1066744947
• ID: 53242433
• Nakladatelství: Abbas Sadak
• Hmotnost: 364 g
• Rozměry: 203 × 127 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 10. July 2026

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