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.
Publisher : Grove Press; Reprint edition (February 18, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 0802148298
ISBN-13 : 978-0802148292
Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
Dimensions : 5.4 x 1.2 x 8 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #895,052 in Books
G. Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel THE BIRD KING (2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series MS MARVEL (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world’s best-known superhero comic book series, including THE X-MEN, SUPERMAN and WONDER WOMAN.
Fatima and Hassan, along with Vikram and Gwennec, finally reach the island of the Bird King. The island is a magical place, where the laws of physics do not always apply. The group finds a community of people who have also fled from the Inquisition, and they begin to build a new life for themselves.
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