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S'està carregant… The City of Brass: A Novel (edició 2017)de S. A. Chakraborty (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe City of Brass de S. A. Chakraborty
   Books Read in 2020 (48) Top Five Books of 2020 (327) » 25 més Female Author (348) Books Read in 2022 (538) Female Protagonist (304) Books Read in 2019 (780) Best Fantasy Novels (661) Favorite Long Books (201) Nonhuman Protagonists (173) First Novels (206) To read (8) mom (234) BookTok Adult (36) ALA The Reading List (477) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Really enjoyed this book. Struggled a bit with all the history and politics, but the characters are great, the story is great, and I'm eager to start with the second book in this trilogy. (  ) ilsevr1977 | Jan 29, 2023 |  ( ) rkleslje | Jan 8, 2023 | I don’t as only here for Dara (  ) spiritedstardust | Dec 29, 2022 | Fall 2021 (October); ~ Library Book Club I rather liked this book, which is unexpected since Laura gave me a rave review of the whole series as being something she'd read in a spree all at once in 2020 (among a handful of other recs I've already been knocking down). I loved the sweeping history, and had no troubles keeping track of the races, families, or the political interplay between specific characters and larger political swaths of larger grouped people. I was most interested in any and all of that parts where the narrative dipped into the history of how everything had become what it was, and it felt natural that there should be almost too much of it, as we, like Nahri, were suddenly deluged with another world of centuries of historical interplay and importance. I did not mind our tropey main children too much. Our sassy, independent special girl with a hidden past-and-or-destiny. The charismatic but tragic hero-or-forced-villain. The boy-prince with a black and white world view, trained to be a weapon but being used by people better suited to how to fight a silent war. I definitely was all for Nahri & Dara from the beginning, and I was incredibly pleased to see the book set up Ali & Nahri as friends, who referred to each other as friends, and weren't pining after each other in silence. It was so nice not to have a romantic triangle or a girl-ends-up-with-each-boy-one-after-the-other situation. I was certain from the first mention of Manizeh that she was alive and Kaveh was part of her being secreted away. I did not predict the second reveal at the very end of the books, but I was cheering loudly at the political savviness of the fact Manizeh would have birthed more Nahid children since Nahri's birth and had been magically sealing them to keep them safe, while tucking them around the the main city of Devabad. ( ) wanderlustlover | Dec 26, 2022 | This book is the story of a thief and orphan girl named Nahri who discovers that she is part of a magical, fantastical world that she never knew existed. I have mixed feelings about this book. On the plus side, it was wonderful to read a fantasy book that wasn't based in "western" mythology. There are far too few fantasy books like that. The writing was good, and the world building was interesting. My biggest problem with this book is that it was at least 200 pages too long. There were parts of it that dragged painfully and that added nothing to the story. This would have been a fantastic 300 page book but 526 was just absolutely unnecessary. Still, it's not a BAD book, and it's almost worth reading just for a taste of another culture that is so hard to find in fantasy literature. ( ) Anniik | Nov 26, 2022 |
 At the moment, speculative fiction has an exciting relationship with protest fiction and feminist narratives, and while “The City of Brass” doesn’t blow away cultural notions of difference or reconfigure the male-female divide, it does exploit the genre’s penchant for inclusion. In fact, the novel feels like a friendly hand held out across the world. (I hope very much that it will be translated into Arabic and Farsi.) It reads like an invitation for readers from Baghdad to Fairbanks to meet across impossibly divergent worlds through the shared language and images of the fantastical. The expected first-novel flaws—a few character inconsistencies, plot swirls that peter out, the odd patch where the author assumes facts not in evidence—matter little. Best of all, the narrative feels rounded and complete yet poised to deliver still more. Highly impressive and exceptionally promising. Pertany a aquestes sèriesTé un estudi
"Step into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty--an 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 by--palm readings, zars, healings--are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles and a reliable way to survive. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she's forced to question all she believes. For the warrior tells her an extraordinary 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 birds of prey are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass--a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In Daevabad, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. A young prince dreams of rebellion. 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 to be careful what you wish for"--
"A brilliantly imagined historical fantasy in which a young con artist in eighteenth century Cairo discovers she's the last descendant of a powerful family of djinn healers. With the help of an outcast immortal warrior and a rebellious prince, she must claim her magical birthright in order to prevent a war that threatens to destroy the entire djinn kingdom. Perfect for fans of The Grace of Kings, The Golem and the Jinni, and The Queen of the Tearling"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.6 — Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (3.95)
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