She studied the men as they approached, noting their light features and the cut of their expensive coats. Turks, she suspected. Nahri was not one for dawn prayer, but her client had cho- sen the early hour and paid handsomely for discretion.
Save for the men, the alley was empty fajr had already been called and anyone devout enough for public prayer-not that there were many in her neighborhood-was already ensconced in the small mosque at the end of the street. She fought a yawn. The younger one glanced anxiously down the alley while the older man- her client-sweated in the cool dawn air. He was an easy mark. Nahri smiled behind her veil, watching the two men bicker as they approached her stall. “Can I swim?” he snapped, as if the very idea offended him. *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. *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. Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal | Vulture | The Verge | SYFYWire
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