The City of Brass

"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakrabortyan imaginative alchemy of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant young con artist with miraculous healing gifts. Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of eighteenth-century Cairo, she's a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get bypalm readings, zars, healingsare all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a …