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I'm always keen to try non-Western fantasy, science fiction, or crime novels, so I was psyched to check out this Bangladesh-set story about human-djinn relations. It kicks off excellently, in a decrepit mansion a shadow of its former glory, where a perpetually drunk widower father mostly ignores his adolescent son, Indelbed. Turns out the father has a connection to the supernatural world, and the boy is kidnapped. The rest of the book has the extended family (especially Indelbed's older cousin,
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Here’s what you have to know about this book:
1. Saad Hossain is funny.
2. Djinn City made me uncomfortable at times.
3. I’m really surprised the book is rated as high as it is with the ending it has. (Although I agree with the ending.)
4. No, really, Hossain is funny. And even though I wouldn’t call the book itself a comedy, there’s no way it would have worked if the author wasn’t so damned funny.
1. Saad Hossain is funny.
2. Djinn City made me uncomfortable at times.
3. I’m really surprised the book is rated as high as it is with the ending it has. (Although I agree with the ending.)
4. No, really, Hossain is funny. And even though I wouldn’t call the book itself a comedy, there’s no way it would have worked if the author wasn’t so damned funny.
Apr 04, 2017
Beverly
marked it as to-read
Jan 12, 2020
Soelo
marked it as to-read
