Hosscin updates the supernatural creatures of Arabian mythology-a superior but by no means perfect species pushed to the brink by the staggering ineptitude of the human race.

Soon, the boys are at the center of a great Diinn controversy, one tied to the continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the future of life as we know it. Still reeling from the fact that genies actually exist, Indelbed finds himself on the run. A 'hunt' has been announced, and ten year-old Indelbed is the prey. And the Diinns, as it turns out, are displeased.

Kaikobad falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker Rais, learn that Indelbed's dad was in fact a magician-and a trusted emissary to the djinn world. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed 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 the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. Hossain returns with his signature blend of satire, dark comedy, and fantasy, using reinvented Islamic mythology to create a mirror world to our own-on the brink of disaster.

Djinn city by saad z hossain