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The bird king / G. Willow Wilson.

Summary:

"G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, a stunning new novel that tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker. Hassan has a secret - he can draw maps of places he'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 gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As Fatima and Hassan traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate."--Provided by the publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802129031
  • ISBN: 080212903X
  • Physical Description: 403 pages : maps ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Map on endpapers.
Subject: Cartographers > Fiction.
Inquisition > Spain > Fiction.
Voyages and travels > Fiction.
Spain > History > 711-1516 > Fiction.
Genre: Fantasy fiction.

Available copies

  • 11 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Prince Rupert Library Wils (Text) 33294002047173 Adult Fiction - Second Floor Volume hold Available -

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