| Edition |
First edition. |
| Physical Description |
403 pages : map ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"A novel" -- Cover. |
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Map on endpapers. |
| Summary |
Set in 1491 during the reign of the last sultanate in the Iberian peninsula, The Bird King is the story of Fatima, the only remaining Circassian concubine to the sultan, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker. Hassan has a secret—he can make maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality with his pen and paper. His magical gift has proven useful to the sultan’s armies in wartime and entertained a bored Fatima who has never stepped foot outside the palace walls. When a party representing the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrives to negotiate the terms of the sultan’s surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, little realizing that her new friend Luz represents the Inquisition, and will see Hassan’s gift as sorcery, and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With everything on the line, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan, and taste the freedom she has never known? |
| Subject |
Cartographers -- Fiction.
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Inquisition -- Spain -- Fiction.
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Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
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Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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