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Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty - an imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, where the future of a sensational Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of the clever and defiant young con designer with miraculous therapeutic gifts. Nahri hasn't believed in special. Certainly she's ability; on the roadways of 18th-century Cairo, she's a con female of unsurpassed expertise. But she has learned better than anyone who the trade she uses to manage - hand readings, zars, healings - are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills, a means to the wonderful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to endure. But when Nahri unintentionally summons an equally sly, darkly strange djinn warrior to her part during one of her cons, she's forced to question all she feels. For the warrior explains to her an extraordinary tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with animals of open fire and rivers where in fact the mythical marid rest, past ruins of once-magnificent individuals metropolises and mountains where in fact the circling birds of prey are not what they appear, lays Daevabad, the renowned city of brass - a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In Daevabad, behind gilded brass surfaces laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. A young prince dreams of rebellion. And when Nahri determines to enter in this world, she discovers that true ability is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of judge politics. That even the cleverest of techniques can have dangerous consequences. After all, there's a reason they say to be careful what you want for.... S. A. Chakraborty is a speculative fiction writer from NEW YORK. The City of Brass is her first novel. www.sachakraborty.com
