Winner of the 2013 World Fantasy Award: a compelling and bewitching first novel, perfect for book groups, that mixes old world magic with modern adventure.
''I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning; when you hear it, you will become someone else.''
He calls himself Alif, a young man born in a Middle Eastern city that straddles the ancient and modern. When Alif comes into possession of a mysterious book entitled The Thousand and One Days, he discovers a door to another world - a world from a very different time, when old magic was in the ascendant and the djinn walked amongst us.
Thus begins an adventure that takes him through the crumbling streets of a once-beautiful city, to uncover the long-forgotten mysteries of the Unseen. Alif is about to become a fugitive. And he is about to unleash a destructive power that will change everything and everyone - starting with Alif himself...
- | Author: G. Willow Wilson
- | Publisher: Atlantic Books
- | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2013
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780857895691
- | ISBN-10: 0857895699
- Author:
- G. Willow Wilson
- Publisher:
- Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:
- Jun 06, 2013
- Binding:
- Paperback / softback
- ISBN-13:
- 9780857895691
- ISBN10:
- 0857895699