Djinn City [Paperback] Saad Z. Hossain

Indelbed Is A Lonely Kid Living In A Crumbling Mansion In Super Dense, Super Chaotic Dhaka. His Father, Dr. Kaikobad, Is The Black Sheep Of Their Clan, The Once Illustrious Khan Rahman Family. A Drunken Loutish Widower, He Refuses To Allow Indelbed To Go To School And The Only Thing Indelbed Knows About His Mother Is The Official Cause Of Her Early Demise: Death By Indelbed. But When Dr. Kaikobad Falls Into A Supernatural Coma, Indelbed And His Older Cousin, The Wise-Cracking Slacker, Rais, Learn That IndelbedS Dad Was, In Fact, A Magician And A Trusted Emissary To The Djinn World. But The Djinns, It Turns Out, Are Displeased And One Of The Consequences Of Their Displeasure Is That A Hunt Is Announced With Ten-Year-Old Indelbed As Prey. Still Reeling From The Fact That Genies Actually Exist, Indelbed Finds Himself On The Run. Soon, The Boys Are At The Center Of A Great Djinn Controversy, One Tied To The Continuing Fallout From An Ancient War, With Ramifications For The Future Of Life As We Know It. Djinn City Is A Darkly Comedic Fantasy Adventure And A Brilliant Follow-Up To Saad Z. HossainS Acclaimed First Novel Escape From Baghdad.