Djinn City

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 Indelbed’s 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. Hossain’s acclaimed first novel escape from Baghdad.