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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Myth & legend told as fiction
"A confident One Thousand and One Nights for our present . . .
Furious pop entertainment--full of sex, passion, violence, and
magic." --Slant magazine This is the story of the legendary City of
Women, told through the tales of those who founded it, championed
it, and made it flourish. When the city of Bessa undergoes a
violent coup, its lazy, laissez-faire ruler, Bokhari Al-Bokhari, is
replaced by the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. With little use for
the pleasures of the flesh, Hakkim sends his predecessor's 365
concubines to a neighboring sultan as a gift. But when the new
sultan discovers the concubines are harboring Al-Bokhari's youngest
son--a child who might grow up to challenge his rule--he repents of
his mercy and sends his soldiers to slaughter the seraglio down to
the last woman and child. What he doesn't count on is a concubine
trained in the art of murder--or the courage and fortitude of the
women who will rise up with her to forge their own city out of the
unforgiving desert. It's an undertaking beset with challenges:
hunger and thirst, Hakkim's relentless hate, and the struggle to
make a place for themselves in a world determined to underestimate
and undermine them. Through a mosaic of voices and tales, we learn
of the women's miraculous rise, their time of prosperity--and how
they carried with them the seed of their own destruction. "A
thrilling tale." --Publishers Weekly "A masterful, engaging and
utterly fascinating story by three wonderful writers." --SFRevu.com
"The Steel Seraglio brings its alternate world of struggle,
politics and magic very much to life." --Locus
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