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Praise for The Bird King “I loved this book so much . . . The Bird King is ostensibly the story of a journey, of the limits to escape―but it is also a journey into story, and faith, and refuge, the family we choose and the friends we find. It’s deeply beautiful and wondrously sad, and I can't tell if it ended too quickly or if I just needed it not to―if I just wanted to dwell in a home built out of story for a little longer yet.”―NPR “I truly cannot remember the last time I read a book that made me feel the way The Bird King made me feel . . . No summary, no quotes, no analysis of this book can communicate the all-encompassing pleasure of reading it, paragraph after paragraph, page after page. Read it, and treasure it.”―Arts Fuse “The Bird King is a compelling, beautifully paced, and beautifully written historical fantasy . . . Wilson skillfully navigates the dualities of love and hate, freedom and captivity, faith and doubt, choice and obligation, and finds all the shades of gray between them. I laughed, I cried, I bit my nails in terror, and I wanted nothing more than to continue spending time with Fatima, Hassan, and their merry band of misfits. An amazing new book from a genuine talent; and while I love her comics work, The Bird King makes me hope that we won’t have to wait another 7 years before her next novel.”―Book Riot “Steeped in magical realism . . . [and] enchanting otherworldly trappings, it is primarily a novel of ideas. [The Bird King] grapples with who we are, how we love, [and] why we worship . . . [with] prose so vivid and original that one can only read it with envy.”―Tor.com “The Bird King is marvelous in the deepest sense―a treasure-house of a novel, thrilling, tender, funny, and achingly gorgeous. I loved it.”―Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy “A gorgeous, ambitious meditation on faith, platonic love, magic and even storytelling itself, with a trio of unforgettable personalities serving as its beating, endlessly vital heart. The Bird King is a triumph . . . Wilson has once again proven that she’s one of the best fantasy writers working today, with a book that’s just waiting for readers to get happily lost in its pages.”―BookPage “A fun, immersive adventure that moves at a brisk pace through lush settings, across dangerous terrain, and eventually out to the open sea . . . [The Bird King] will appeal to readers of S. A. Chakraborty’s City of Brass, Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni, and Naomi Novik’s fairy tale-esque Uprooted.”―Booklist (starred review) “The Bird King takes a time period that’s passed into cliché and makes it new and strange again. In this novel, the real runs alongside the fantastic, one informing the other, G. Willow Wilson’s eye for detail and her titanic imagination pumping together like pistons. She’s incredible. The Bird King has big things to say about states and souls, and it’s going to take you on a rollicking ride while it says them. I was fascinated and riveted and, by the end, deeply moved.”―Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough “A breathtaking historical fantasy . . . To say Wilson is a talented storyteller does not adequately capture the magnificent dimensions of her work . . . The Bird King [is] a more-than-worthy follow-up to Alif the Unseen. It’s not necessary to read one before the other, but only a fool would miss them both.”―Shelf Awareness “Teeming with secrets, violence, and magic, G. Willow Wilson’s characters come alive in a backdrop of 15th century Spain that is at once sinister and lush. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, the world held me captive and I’m haunted by it still.”―Sabaa Tahir, author of An Ember in the Ashes “A lovely fable set during the final days of the Reconquista . . . [The Bird King is] a thoughtful and beautiful balance between the real and the fantastic.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[A] swashbuckling second novel amid an epic clash between cultures.”―Publishers Weekly PRAISE FOR ALIF THE UNSEEN “G. Willow Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people. You should read what she writes.”―Neil Gaiman, author of Stardust and American Gods, on Alif the Unseen “[G. Willow Wilson] works magic . . . Ms. Wilson has not set out to copy J.K. Rowling’s books or anyone else’s; she has her own fertile imagination and fanciful narrative style.”―New York Times “Wilson has a Dickensian gift for summoning a city and peopling it with memorable characters.”―Washington Post “Wilson seems to delight in establishing, then confounding, any expectations readers may have . . . For those who view American fiction as provincial, or dominated by competent but safe work, Wilson’s novel offers a resounding, heterodox alternative.”―New York Times Book Review “Alif the Unseen is one of those novels that has you rushing to find what else the author has written, and eagerly anticipating what she’ll do next.”―Matt Ruff, author of Fool on the Hill and The Mirage “Alif the Unseen richly rewards believers in the power of the written word.”―Seattle Times “Wilson refreshingly, and without condescension, uses Islamic folklore to tell a story of state oppression, resistance and hope.”―Guardian (UK) “Wilson’s voice is magical and effortless, blending real-world issues with the wonderment of Arabian fairy tales.”―Philadelphia Inquirer “A ferocious new voice in fiction.”―BookPage

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About the Author

G. Willow Wilson is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Alif the Unseen, the memoir The Butterfly Mosque, and the graphic novels Cairo, Air, and Vixen. She co-created the celebrated comic book series Ms. Marvel starring Kamala Khan, winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, and recently debuted as writer of the Wonder Woman comics. She currently lives in Seattle.

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Product details

Hardcover: 440 pages

Publisher: Grove Press (March 12, 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 080212903X

ISBN-13: 978-0802129031

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.7 out of 5 stars

41 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#5,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

The core of a true fairy tale is to impart a lesson in a story that draws people in. The Bird King is masterful at this, telling a story about a young woman and her friend that flee their home when they are persecuted for their faith. While the story is a grand adventure, and beautifully told, it also asks you to question faith and acceptance as well as the power a person has within them when they focus less on material things and instead on their own potential and the things they hold true. The story flips the script on a traditional fairy tale based in old Europe by telling the story of Fatima, a concubine, and Hassan, her friend who is gay and possesses the ability to bend geography with his mapmaking skills. The Inquisition is moving south through Spain, and conquering land of people with different traditions and faith. Fatima and Hassan flee and as they are pursued by Luz, the Inquisitor, they decide to search out the island of the Bird King, a tale begun for them and told out in many ways by them over the years. Along the way they have assistance and resistance from jinn and a Breton monk. This is an absolutely beautiful story.

Having read the tale The Conference of the Birds in my teens it is a joy to read this story set in a historical.period where the world's of Islam, Christianity and Judaism.intersect. The story is told thru 2 outcasts and is bisected by this old Sufi tale. It is a story of awakening. It is a story about courage to be and to love.

Delightful in many respects, with a story that carries one along, turning pages as smoothly as the ships that sail through its pages, this novel is also infused with a very dark and untruthful aspect that I alas found thoroughly disheartening.The tale takes place at the end of the Reconquista, the long recovery of Spanish territory from Moorish conquest, which began with the Umayyad invasion of Hispania in 711 and at its peak included most of the Iberian peninsula and a large chunk of southern France.Iberia's Christian rulers drove most of the Moors from their lands in the 13th century, with the liberation of Cordoba in 1236 and Seville in 1248, respectively. Granada remained the only Muslim holdout until 1491, when this story takes place.This book would have readers believe that only the Spanish Inquisitors were cruel. It lightly glosses over the habitual Muslim enslavement of others, and wants readers to believe that the Muslim rulers were all good and kind. Yes, there are brief mentions of the Ottoman conquests of non-Muslim lands, and the central character is a concubine of the last Sultan of Granada.Nothing here, however, suggests that in fact the Muslim conquerors ignited the Inquisition in the first place through their evil 700-year conquest of Spain and southern France. From beginning to end, that Moorish era was so full of murder, plunder, enslavement and debasement of non-Muslims that Maimonides, the great Jewish physician and philosopher, fled Spain and subsequently provided some choice descriptions of the horrors of living under Muslim rule.Those who want a realistic picture of the history should read Richard Fletcher's Moorish Spain.I definitely enjoyed this book, as well as the characterizations.But the history presented here is as fanciful and false as the magical jinns who populate the story, along with the royal concubine and a lowly but extremely talented mapmaker.It's fiction, and the history is purely fiction as well.

I admire this book more than I like it. It features solid prose, an interesting and vividly drawn historical setting, realistic characters, and some very enjoyable fantasy elements -- Vikram the jinn being the greatest of these -- but ultimately it didn't work for me because I had no idea how the author intended the conclusion to be understood. Maybe that matters not at all, but it made for a muddled reading experience. [Spoilers follow.]The bare outlines of the plot involve Fatima, a royal concubine, who is forced to flee the Emirate of Granada in its last days after the Inquisition comes calling and threatens her best friend, the cartographer Hassan. Vikram aids them in their escape and they end up in a mysterious place described as 'an idea with a location.' They have many adventures on the way, and Fatima (unconvincingly) changes over the course of a few weeks or months from a melancholy but self-centered individual into someone who repeatedly risks her life to save her friends. The chief antagonist is Luz, a lay sister working for the Inquisition. There is also a nameless evil thrown into the mix, which may or may not be responsible for some of Luz's more outrageous behavior.I don't think adding the Nameless Evil to the mechanisms of the Inquisition was a particularly good or necessary move on the author's part; the 'Holy Office' was plenty bad enough on its own. Still less is this useful if the Evil's presence was meant to be exculpatory in any way. And then there's the ending. Let's create a haven from the nastiness of the world, admit a few lucky travelers, and then close it off forever from other desperate refugees in order to ensure our survival? What?Here's hoping that Ms. Wilson's next novel will focus on Vikram. You can tell she loves writing the character, and he's by far the most interesting thing about this book. I would recommend this novel for its depiction of a time and place you don't see much of in historical fiction, but be prepared to come up against some really disconcerting plot elements.

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