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.
Angelika
28/06/2023
I honestly don't know how to rate this: I've listened to the first two hours and I would like to know how it continues, but I'm seriously annoyed by the overly dramatic voice acting. It makes the protagonist seem like a whiney brat and I'm pretty sure she doesn't come across that way in the book. It's too bad this app doesn't have the ebook version, I would prefer reading this. Maybe I'll switch to a different app at some point, because there's often no ebook and sometimes I can tell that I would like the book minus the voice acting a lot better.
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