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Recognizing her healing powers as belonging to the long-dead Nahids, a powerful magical family and ancient rulers of the djinn, he takes her on a journey to Daevabad, the city her ancestors built. During an exorcism, she accidentally summons a djinn warrior named Darayavahoush e-Afshin, 'Dara' for short. The book begins in 18th-century Cairo and follows Nahri, a talented orphan con woman who uses palm reading and sleight of hand to swindle Ottoman nobles, and has healing powers. So, I tried to imagine what happened next: how that might have shaped their religion and politics.

For example, we have a few mentions of the Prophet Suleiman punishing djinn but not much beyond that. It became a game with history and folklore providing the rules: I had to abide by what existed, but could imagine beyond that. the world that became The City of Brass–one I imagined djinn might have created by combining their nature and the influences of the particular human societies they lived amongst. The press release describes the story as 'an imaginative alchemy of 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.' When asked about writing the novel in an interview for The Huffington Post, Chakraborty explains that it 'began as a world-building experiment. It is five-hundred and thirty-two pages long, features illustrations and maps, and is printed in hardcover and paperback, and available in digital download.

The City of Brass was published by HarperCollins subsidiary HarperVoyager, on November 14, 2017. It is the first of The Daevabad Trilogy, followed by The Kingdom of Copper in 2019 and The Empire of Gold in 2020. The City of Brass is an American science fiction and fantasy novel written by S.

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