Chakraborty's debut is desire-soaked, intrigue-laced, and rife with so-delicious-you'll-sink-your-teeth-into-it worldbuilding and equally mesmerizing characters. Highly impressive and exceptionally promising., An opulent masterpiece. Following the various subplots is like pondering vibrant Arabic design readers will lose themselves in the wonder and complexity., Against syncretic yet nonderivative and totally credible backdrop, Chakraborty has constructed a compelling yarn.culminating in a cataclysmic showdown that few readers will anticipate.Best of all, the narrative feels rounded and complete yet poised to deliver still more. With this rich and layered novel, Chakraborty builds a fantasy world as intricate and intriguing as its Middle Eastern setting. After all, there is a reason they say to be careful what you wish for. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. All too soon, Nahri learns that true power is fierce and brutal. Spurning Dara's warning of the treachery surrounding her, she embarks on a hesitant friendship with Alizayd, an idealistic prince who dreams of revolutionizing his father's corrupt regime. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, her arrival threatens to ignite a war that has been simmering for centuries. In Daevabad, within gilded brass walls laced with enchantments and behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments run deep. For Dara tells Nahri an extraordinary tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire and rivers where the mythical marid sleep, past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises and mountains where the circling birds of prey are more than what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass-a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. But when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, to her side during one of her cons, she's forced to reconsider her beliefs. But she knows better than anyone that the trades she uses to get by-palm readings, zars, and a mysterious gift for healing-are all tricks, both the means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive. Certainly, she has power on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent. Chakraborty, an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. If you order this along with other items, your entire order will be held and despatched when complete.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal Vulture The Verge SYFYWire Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. Usually despatched in 3 to 10 working days. She only wishes to one day leave Cairo, but as the saying goes.Ĭurrently not in stock but due shortly. She knows the trades she uses to get by are just tricks and sleights of hand: there's nothing magical about them. Many wish their lives could be filled with such wonder, but not Nahri. Where magic pours down every street, hanging in the air like dust. Of cities hidden among the swirling sands of the desert, full of enchantment, desire and riches. `An extravagant feast of a book - spicy and bloody, dizzyingly magical, and still, somehow, utterly believable' Laini Taylor, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling authorĪmong the bustling markets of eighteenth century Cairo, the city's outcasts eke out a living swindling rich Ottoman nobles and foreign invaders alike.īut alongside this new world the old stories linger. Discover this spellbinding debut from S.A.
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