The City Of Brass: A Novel The Daevabad Trilogy

The City of Brass is a highly praised novel in the Daevabad Trilogy, described as "dizzyingly magical" by Laini Taylor and "an opulent masterpiece" by Roshani Chokshi. It follows the story of Nahri, a con artist in 18th century Cairo who discovers she has magical powers and is drawn into the world of Daevabad, a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom. Nahri's arrival in Daevabad threatens to ignite a war and she must navigate dangerous court politics while forming a friendship with an idealistic prince. The novel explores themes of power, magic, and the consequences of one's actions.

"Dizzyingly magical." Laini Taylor"You must read it." Sabaa Tahir"An opulent masterpiece." Roshani Chokshi"Simply one of the best debuts I've read." Kevin HearneStep into The City of Brass,the spellbindingdebut fromS. A. Chakraborty, an imaginative alchemyof 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.Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, shes a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trades she uses to get bypalm readings, zars, and a mysterious gift for healingare all tricks, both the means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive.But when Nahri accidentally summons Dara, an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior, to her side during one of her cons, shes forced to reconsider her beliefs. For Dara tells Nahri an extraordinary tale: 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, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brassa city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.In Daevabad, within gilded brass walls laced with enchantments and behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments run deep. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, her arrival threatens to ignite a war that has been simmering for centuries.Spurning Daras warning of the treachery surrounding her, she embarks on a hesitant friendship with Alizayd, an idealistic prince who dreams of revolutionizing his fathers corrupt regime. All too soon, Nahri learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.After all, there is a reason they say to be careful what you wish for . . .