The Bird King A Novel
eBook - 2019
One of NPR's 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition . . .Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition.Fatima is a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain. Her dearest friend, Hassan, the palace mapmaker and the one man who doesn't leer at her with desire, has a secret—he can draw maps of places he&#...039;s never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan's surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan's...
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Grove Atlantic
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
- Format
- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
| Adobe EPUB eBook | |
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| File Size | 3 GB |
| ISBN | 9780802146847 |
| Release Date | 3/30/2022 |
| Kindle Book | |
| ASIN | B07MWJSMSK |
| Release Date | 3/30/2022 |
| OverDrive Read eBook | |
| ISBN | 9780802146847 |
| Release Date | 3/30/2022 |
