This morning, I’m very pleased to welcome The Write Reads Ultimate Blog Tour for Djamila Morani’s The Djinn’s Apple. In addition to this Spotlight, my post about the book will be coming along soon. In the meantime, go check out https://twitter.com/WriteReadsTours—we’re in the middle of this tour and several bloggers have been writing interesting things about this book and and there are more to come you can find them all there. But for now, let’s learn a little bit about the book, shall we?
Book Details:
Title: The Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani, translated by Sawad Hussain
Genre: Historical Fiction / Crime & Mystery / Family
Age Category: Young Adule
Publisher: Neem Tree Press
Release date: February 29, 2024 (UK), May 7, 2024 (US)
Format: Paperback/Ebook
Length: 160 pages
About the Book:
Winner of an English PEN Translates Award.
Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn’s Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period—the golden age of Baghdad.
A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript.
When Nardeen’s home is stormed by angry men frantically in search of something—or someone—she is the only one who manages to escape. And after the rest of her family is left behind and murdered, Nardeen sets out on an unyielding mission to bring her family’s killers to justice, regardless of the cost…
Full of mystery and mayhem, The Djinn’s Apple is perfect for fans of Arabian Nights, City of Brass, and The Wrath and the Dawn.
Book Links:
Neem Tree Press ~ Amazon UK ~ Amazon US ~ Goodreads
About the Author:
Djamila Morani is an Algerian novelist and an Arabic language professor. Her first novel, released in 2015 and titled Taj el-Khatiaa, is set in the Abbasid period (like The Djinn’s Apple), but in Kazakh- stan. All of her works are fast-paced historical fiction pieces. She is yet to have a full-length work translated into English.
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My thanks to The Write Reads for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials they provided.
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