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There is enough material here-a feisty, independent lead searching for answers, reminiscent of Star Wars’s Rey, and a richly imagined alternate world-to support a potential series. Chakraborty combines the plot’s many surprises with vivid prose (“The cemetery ran along the city’s eastern edge, a spine of crumbling bones and rotting tissue where everyone from Cairo’s founders to its addicts were buried”), and leavens the action with wry humor. Nahri only avoids being killed through the intervention of Dara, a djinn, who reveals that Nahri is from a family of magical healers. Her routine, if precarious, existence, is shattered when a girl she is trying to help is possessed by an ifrit. Twenty-something Nahri, who has the ability to sense illness in others and to heal some ailments, supports herself as a fortune-teller and con artist in Cairo. The familiar fantasy theme of a young person learning of a hidden supernatural legacy is given new life in this promising debut novel, set in late-18th-century Egypt. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.Īfter all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. Chakraborty On Sale: J18.99 Now: 15.19 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. For the warrior tells her a new 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 hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass?a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by�palm readings, zars, healings�are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.īut when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she�s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. Certainly, she has power on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she�s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. Chakraborty € 32.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 3 weeks.

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty