From the author of the cult classic Escape from Baghdad!, comes one
of The Guardian's Best Fantasy Books of the Year
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super
dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr.
Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan
Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed
go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the
official cause of her early demise: Death by Indelbed.
But When Dr. 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. And
the Djinns, as it turns out, are displeased. A hunt has been announced,
and ten year-old Indelbed is the prey. Still reeling from the fact that
genies actually exist, Indelbed finds himself on the run. Soon, the boys
are at the center of a great Diinn controversy, one tied to the
continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the
future of life as we know it.
Saad Z. Hosscin updates the supernatural creatures Of Arabian
mythology--a superior but by no means perfect species pushed to the
brink by the staggering ineptitude of the human race. 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
searing indictment of the project we euphemistically call
'nation-building.'
