Hossain's acclaimed first novel escape from Baghdad. Djinn city is a darkly comedic fantasy adventure and a brilliant follow-up to Saad Z. Djinn City is a darkly comedic fanlasy adventure, and a stirring follow-up to Hossains 2015 novel Escape from Baghdad, which NPR called a hilarious and. Soon, the boys are at the center of a great djinn controversy, one tied to the continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the future of life as we know it. Still reeling from the fact that genies actually exist, Indelbed finds himself on the run.

But the djinns, it turns out, are displeased and one of the consequences of their displeasure is that a 'hunt' is announced with ten-year-old Indelbed as prey. Hossain, Jean-François Le Ruyet (Translator) Editorial Reviews. Read an excerpt of this book Add to Wishlist. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker, rais, learn that Indelbed's dad was, in fact, a magician and a trusted emissary to the djinn world. Hossain, Jean-François Le Ruyet (Translator) Editorial Reviews. Djinn City is a darkly comedic fanlasy adventure, and a stirring follow-up to Hossain's 2015 novel Escape from Baghdad, which NPR called 'a hilarious and. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed to go to school and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official cause of her early demise: 'Death by Indelbed'. Hossain updates the supernatural creatures of Arabian mythologya superior but by no means perfect species pushed to the brink by the staggering ineptitude of the human race. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in super dense, super chaotic Dhaka.

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