![]() ![]() ![]() 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 mystical 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 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.īut 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. Certainly, she has power on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent. Agent: Jennifer Azantian, Azantian Literary. 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. ![]()
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