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The Bird King
Download PDF The Bird King
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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 * 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 takes a time period that's passed into cliche 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 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 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 Brilliantly imagines the fall of Muslim Granada....A warm, generous spirit underlies the entire novel. * New York Times Book Review *
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
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.
Produktinformation
Gebundene Ausgabe: 416 Seiten
Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press; Auflage: Main (4. Juli 2019)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1611856361
ISBN-13: 978-1611856361
Größe und/oder Gewicht:
15 x 3,1 x 21,6 cm
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Nr. 867.097 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
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.
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.
This is a charming, innovative fantasy set in the not-overused setting of -mostly- real-world medieval Granada (now part of Spain). The setting is beautifully depicted (it makes me wish to go hiking in Spain ... but with good boots) and the intrusions of the fantastic into the real are very nicely handled. The classic poem The Conference of the Birds is an important theme that lends a thread of sophisticated culture to the plot. The protagonists are spirited, thoughtful and complex (as are several secondary characters, including one of the bad guys), with personal emotional challenges to face as well as external threats. Though lifelong friends, when forced into a situation of great stress and suffering, they start resenting each other and bickering (as wouldn't most of us?) rather than falling implausibly into the Stalwart Questing Heroes model. Dialogue is well done. Lots of strengths from this writer, and no major weaknesses. Having read this, I'll certainly be buying Wilson's first book and anything else she chooses to write.
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.
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