This is the story of Fatima--a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain--and her dearest friend Hassan, the royal 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, unaware that she will see Hassan's gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. Fatima and Hassan then travel across Spain to find safety with the help of a clever jinn.
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G. Willow Wilson.
"Epigraph translation Richard Davis and Afkham Darbandi, from The Conference of the Birds by Attar ; Endpapers by Tom Daly."--verso of title page.
