At Daevabad she’s astonished to learn that she’s the daughter of a legendary healer of the Nahid family. During the hair-raising journey by flying carpet, Nahri meets spirits and monsters and develops feelings for Dara, a deeply conflicted being with a long, tangled past. Dara insists that Nahri is no longer safe-evil djinn threaten her life, so he must convey her to Daevabad, a legendary eastern city protected by impervious magical brass walls. Then, during a supposed exorcism, she somehow summons a mysterious djinn warrior named Dara, whose magic is both real and incomprehensibly powerful. On the streets of 18th-century Cairo, young Nahri-she has a real talent for medicine but lacks the wherewithal to acquire proper training-makes a living swindling Ottoman nobles by pretending to wield supernatural powers she doesn’t believe in. *Finalist for the British Fantasy Award: Best Newcomerįeaturing a stepback and extra content including a bonus scene and an excerpt from The Kingdom of Copper.A rich Middle Eastern fantasy, the first of a trilogy: Chakraborty’s intriguing debut. *Nominated for the Locus Award: Best First Novel *Finalist for the World Fantasy Award: Best Novel

It’s a city steeped in magic and fire, where blood can be as dangerous as any spell a city where old resentments run deep and the royal court rules with a tenuous grip a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound-and where her very presence threatens to ignite a war that has been simmering for centuries. But when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, during one of her cons, she learns that even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.įorced to flee Cairo, Dara and Nahri journey together 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, to Daevabad, the legendary city of brass. She makes her living swindling Ottoman nobles, hoping to one day earn enough to change her fortunes. On the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, Nahri is a con woman of unsurpassed skill. Chakraborty perfect for fans 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.

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