"Bangladeshi author Saad Z Hossain’s Djinn City is set both in his home country and the realm of the Djinns. It’s a richly evocative adventure about a father and his half-Djinn son searching for one another – a sort of dark-fantasy Finding Nemo, as charming and funny as it is inventive and strange."/5(46). · Saad Z. Hossain’s Djinn City is another spirited entry into this tradition. In his second work of fiction, the Bangladeshi writer blends the elements of political intrigue, bildungsroman, and science fiction into a dizzying adventure novel. He adapts Arabian mythology to trace the historical origins of an interracial conflict between man and djinn. · Soon, the boys are at the center of a great djinn controversy, one tied to the continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the future of life as we know it. Djinn city is a darkly comedic fantasy adventure and a brilliant follow-up to Saad Z. ISBN
Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. This must be the season of the djinn. Over the past several months we've reviewed two excellent novels about genies - Salman Rushdie's excellent Two Years Eight Months Twenty-Eight Nights and, most recently, S.A. Chakraborty's spellbinding City of Brass. Could Saad Z. Hossain make it a hat trick with his latest novel, Djinn City? . Djinn City Saad Z. Hossain Saad Z. Hossain returns with his signature blend of satire, dark comedy, and fantasy, using reinvented Islamic mythology to create a mirror world to our own—on the brink of disaster. Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh.
"Bangladeshi author Saad Z Hossain’s DJINN CITY is set both in his home country and the realm of the Djinns. It’s a richly evocative adventure about a father and his half-Djinn son searching for one another – a sort of dark-fantasy Finding Nemo, as charming and funny as it is inventive and strange." —Adam Roberts, The Guardian. Soon, the boys are at the center of a great djinn controversy, one tied to the continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the future of life as we know it. Djinn city is a darkly comedic fantasy adventure and a brilliant follow-up to Saad Z. Hossain's acclaimed first novel escape from Baghdad. Saad Z. Hossain 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 novel Escape from Baghdad!, which NPR called "a hilarious and searing indictment of the project we euphemistically call 'nation-building.'".
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