The City of Brass

About The City of Brass

The City of Brass is the first epic fantasy novel in S.A. Chakraborty's Daevabad Trilogy, a richly imagined debut set in the world of Islamic mythology and the hidden realm of the djinn. Nahri is a clever young con artist scraping by in eighteenth-century Cairo, using a gift she does not fully understand to heal the sick and fleece the gullible. When she accidentally summons a Daeva warrior named Dara during one of her rituals, she is pulled into a world of magic, politics, and ancient conflict she was never meant to know. Together they journey to Daevabad—a city of djinn where the lines between nobility, conquest, and survival have been drawn in blood for centuries. There, Nahri discovers that her heritage may hold the key to a struggle between the ruling Qahtanis and the oppressed Daeva people. Ali, the younger prince of the royal family, becomes an unexpected ally as his own beliefs are tested against the brutality of the city's caste system. The City of Brass is an exquisitely detailed fantasy with moral complexity, gorgeous world-building drawn from Arabic and Persian tradition, and characters whose loyalties are never simple. A magnificent debut that launched one of fantasy's best trilogies.

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