“Often the mightiest things have the humblest beginnings.”
Názov: The City of Brass
Séria: The Daevabad Trilogy
Autor: S.A. Chakraborty
Vydavateľstvo, rok vydania: HarperVoyager, 2017
Počet strán: 521
Hodnotenie GR (v čase písania recenzie): 4,14
Anotácia:
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn
warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the
magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the
warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with
creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of
once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are
not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which
Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the
six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when
Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and
brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics.
That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful
what you wish for...
