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City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat
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In this spell-binding tale, a Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a nesting doll of interlocked stories about a trickster and a hidden city ruled by the Queen of Red Midnight.
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Trevor Williamson
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“City of Red Midnight is a story full of wonder, a passion for the very act of storytelling itself as well as the magic a story can weave. It is full of fantastical imagery, concretized in specific cultural references and artistic motifs, but strongly feminist in its perspective and its rehabilitation of old mythologies for a new, modern audience.
Malik is a massively talented, highly skillful writer, and his dizzying text of stories told one after another through multiple mouths evokes a compelling oral tradition even as it challenges structural notions of framework stories told in ages past. City of Red Midnight feels refreshingly new but also remarkably familiar--a tale timeless but timely, gorgeously told through compelling prose.
What a tale of marvels and beauty!”

Andy Fluke
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“This wonderful tale within a tale within a tale, recently featured and available to read on the Tor Books website, captured my imagination immediately. Reminiscent of a story from the Arabian Nights, and other Middle Eastern legends (with a modern twist), I was so captivated by the beginning that I went and bought it for my Kindle so I could curl up in bed with it.”
About Usman T. Malik
Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani writer who divides his life between Orlando and Lahore. His short fiction has been reprinted in several Best of the Year anthologies including the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy series and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the StorySouth Million Writers Award, and twice for the Nebula Award. He has won the Bram Stoker Award as well as the British Fantasy Award. In his woefully diminished spare time he runs distance.
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