HarperVoyager The City of Brass

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Discover this spellbinding debut from Sunday Times bestseller S.A. Chakraborty.

‘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 author

Among the bustling markets of eighteenth century Cairo, the city’s outcasts eke out a living swindling rich Ottoman nobles and foreign invaders alike.

But alongside this new world the old stories linger. Tales of djinn and spirits. Of cities hidden among the swirling sands of the desert, full of enchantment, desire and riches. Where magic pours down every street, hanging in the air like dust.

Many wish their lives could be filled with such wonder, but not Nahri. She knows the trades she uses to get by are just tricks and sleights of hand: there’s nothing magical about them. She only wishes to one day leave Cairo, but as the saying goes…

Be careful what you wish for.

Shannon Chakraborty’s book ‘The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi’ was a No.2 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-02-27.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperVoyager
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 3 July 2018
Edition ‏ : ‎ edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008239428
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008239428
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 294 g
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 3.3 x 19.8 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #11,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #30 in Historical Fantasy #54 in Sword & Sorcery Fantasy #72 in Mythology & Folk Tales
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