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The bird king / G. Willow Wilson.

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Record Number 802781
ISBN 9780802129031 (hardback)
Author Wilson, G. Willow, 1982- author.
Title The bird king / G. Willow Wilson.
Edition First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher/Date New York : Grove Press, 2019.
©2019
Pagination etc. 403 pages : map ; 22 cm
Contents note Map on endpapers.
Summary Note From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. 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.
Subject Cartographers -- Fiction
Inquisition -- Spain -- Fiction
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Fiction
Romance fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Shelf Location F WILS
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