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The City of Brass

S. A. Chakraborty

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The City of Brass won the World Fantasy Award: Best Novel finalist, Locus Award: Best First Novel nominee, and British Fantasy Award: Best Newcomer finalist, and was named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal, Vulture, The Verge, and SYFYWire. On the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, Nahri is a con woman of unsurpassed skill. She makes her living swindling Ottoman nobles, hoping to one day earn enough to change her fortunes. 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. Forced 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. 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.

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Publisher
Harper Voyager
Year
2018
ISBN-13
9780062678119
Genre
Fantasy
Topics
Magic and djinnPolitical intrigue and power strugglesIdentity and belonging

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