From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an
epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian
peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow
Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen established her as a vital
American Muslim literary voice. The Bird King tells the story of
Fatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate
of Muslim Spain, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace
mapmaker. Hassan has a secret - he can draw maps of places he's
never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of
the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan's
surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realising that
she will see Hassan's gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian
Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk
to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As Fatima and Hassan
traverse Spain to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider
what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and
the Muslim world were not yet separate.
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