![]() Agent: Jennifer Azantian, Azantian Literary. There is enough material here-a feisty, independent lead searching for answers, reminiscent of Star Wars’s Rey, and a richly imagined alternate world-to support a potential series. Chakraborty combines the plot’s many surprises with vivid prose (“The cemetery ran along the city’s eastern edge, a spine of crumbling bones and rotting tissue where everyone from Cairo’s founders to its addicts were buried”), and leavens the action with wry humor. Nahri only avoids being killed through the intervention of Dara, a djinn, who reveals that Nahri is from a family of magical healers. City Of Brass is an Arabian Nights-themed, first-person rogue-lite where you become a daring thief in a punishing, procedurally generated quest filled with treasure, traps and ghoulish foes. Her routine, if precarious, existence, is shattered when a girl she is trying to help is possessed by an ifrit. It introduces Nahri, a young con-woman from Cairo struggling to make ends meet the ancient warrior Darayavahoush who takes her to the legendary djinn city the idealistic and social justice. Upcoming Events A CANADIAN BRASS CHRISTMAS JAZZ IN THE CITY TAB BENOIT WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND FIRST FRIDAY FREE FAMILY FILM. Twenty-something Nahri, who has the ability to sense illness in others and to heal some ailments, supports herself as a fortune-teller and con artist in Cairo. For the Netflix adaption, see The City of Brass (Netflix) The City of Brass is the first book in the Daevabad Trilogy series, written by S.A. ![]() ![]() The familiar fantasy theme of a young person learning of a hidden supernatural legacy is given new life in this promising debut novel, set in late-18th-century Egypt. ![]()
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