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The quest across a magic-touched twelfth-century Indian Ocean reunites her old crew and awakens supernatural dangers.
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Fantasy & Magical Realism
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
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Amina al-Sirafi, a legendary, now-retired pirate captain and mother, is lured back to sea for one last job: recovering a wealthy patron's kidnapped granddaughter.
- Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 496
- Format
- Hardcover (US first edition; UK...
- Language
- English
Amina al-Sirafi is done with adventuring: once the most notorious pirate captain of the twelfth-century Indian Ocean, she is now a tired, devout single mother trying to stay retired.
Then a fortune - and a threat - drags her back for one last job, and Shannon Chakraborty is off, spinning a rollicking sea quest packed with old comrades, sea monsters, treacherous magic and a genuinely delightful middle-aged heroine. Told as Amina's own boastful, self-interrupting testimony to a scribe, the novel is a love letter to the medieval Islamicate world and its lore, blending meticulous historical texture with djinn, demons and derring-do.
Chakraborty, author of the beloved Daevabad Trilogy, writes action and banter with gusto and grounds the fun in real questions of faith, motherhood and reputation. It is escapist adventure fantasy of a very high order - swashbuckling, funny and warm.
For readers who want a fresh, richly imagined swashbuckler with a heroine well past the usual chosen-one age, it is a treat and a Hugo finalist.
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Pages
496
Published
2023
Harper Voyager (HarperCollins)
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Hardcover (US first edition; UK...
Language
English
Fantasy & Magical Realism
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978-0062963505
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