The City of Brass
Book One of the Daevabad Trilogy - Be careful what you wish for ..
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 authorAmong 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.
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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 authorAmong 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.
Untertitel
Book One of the Daevabad Trilogy - Be careful what you wish for ..
H | B | T | Gramm
198 mm | 128 mm | 38 mm | 379 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
FSK
0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Harper Collins Publ. U
ISBN-10
0008239428
ISBN-13
9780008239428
Autor
S. A. Chakraborty
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
544
Themen
Mythen und Legenden / Mythologische Romane, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Regionalroman, Fantasy Romance, Historische Abenteuerromane, Historische Fantasy, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Reisen, Epische Fantasy High Fantasy / Heroische Fantasy
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