Castle in the Air
β Scribed by Diana Wynne Jones
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 558 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A magical Arabian Nights tale from the captivating creator of fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones. The dazzling sequel to Howls Moving Castle, now a major animated film. Far to the south in the Land of Ingary, lives a young carpet merchant called Abdullah. In his dreams, he is the long-lost son of a great prince. This dream is a complete castle in the airβ¦ or is it? Abdullahβs day-dreams suddenly start to come true when he meets the exquisite Flower-in-the-Night, daughter of the ferocious Sultan of Zanzib. Fate has destined them for each other, but a bad-tempered genie, a hideous djinn, and various villanous bandits have their own ideas. When Flower-in-the-Night is carried off, Abdullah is determined to rescue her β if he can find her.
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