HOSSAINs previous novel is the acclaimed Escape from Baghdad! He lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hossains acclaimed first novel Escape from Baghdad! hossains acclaimed first novel escape from baghdad HELP. Soon, the boys are at the center of a great djinn controversy, one tied to the continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the future of life as we know it.ĭjinn City is a darkly comedic fantasy adventure, and a brilliant follow-up to Saad Z. djinn city is a darkly comedic fantasy adventure, and a brilliant follow-up to saad z. Still reeling from the fact that genies actually exist, Indelbed finds himself on the run. But the djinns, it turns out, are displeased and one of the consequences of their displeasure is that a ‘hunt is announced with ten-year-old Indelbed as prey. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker, Rais, learn that Indelbeds dad was, in fact, a magician and a trusted emissary to the djinn world. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed to go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official cause of her early demise: ‘Death by Indelbed.īut when Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in super dense, super chaotic Dhaka.
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