The Bird King (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780802129031)

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 was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, a stunning new novel that 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 realizing 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 with the help of a clever jinn 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.

Author: G. Willow Wilson
ISBN-10: 080212903X
ISBN-13: 9780802129031
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2019
Pages: 440
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 03/01/2019
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2018 pg. 43
Publishers Weekly 12/10/2018
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2019 pg. 32
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 50
Foreword 02/26/2019
Shelf Awareness 03/12/2019
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 39

About the Author

G. Willow Wilson is the co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series Ms. Marvel (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world's best-known superhero comic book series, including The X-Men, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Her first novel, Alif the Unseen, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Center For Fiction's First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the PEN America Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle.