The City of Silk and Steel (The Steel Seraglio)

The Steel Seraglio (The City of Silk and Steel)

✍ Carey, Mike; Carey, Linda; Carey, Louise 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 ChiZine 🌐 English ⚖ 956 KB

The sultan Bokhari Al-Bokhari of Bessa has 365 concubines— until a violent coup puts the city in the hands of the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. Hakkim has no use for the pleasures of the flesh: he condemns the women first to exile and then to death. Cast into the desert, the concubines must rely o

The City of Silk and Steel ( aka The Steel Seraglio)

✍ Carey, Louise;Carey, Linda;Malavia, Nimit;Carey, Mike 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 ChiZine 🌐 English ⚖ 521 KB 👁 2 views

Intro; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Prologue; Rem Speaks of These Things; Book the First; Bokhari Al-Bokhari and His Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Five Concubines; Fireside Story; The Tale of the Dancing Girl; The Cup Lands Upright, Part the First; The Tale of the Girl, Her Father

The Steel Seraglio

✍ Carey, Mike; Carey, Linda; Carey, Louise; Malavia, Nimit 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 ChiZine 🌐 English ⚖ 450 KB

The sultan Bokhari Al-Bokhari of Bessa has 365 concubines� until a violent coup puts the city in the hands of the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. Hakkim has no use for the pleasures of the flesh: he condemns the women first to exile and then to death. Cast into the desert, the concubines must rely o

The Steel Seraglio

✍ Carey, Mike; Carey, Linda; Carey, Louise; Malavia, Nimit 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

Overview: The sultan Bokhari Al-Bokhari of Bessa has 365 concubines - until a violent coup puts the city in the hands of the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. Hakkim has no use for the pleasures of the flesh: he condemns the women first to exile - and then to death Cast into the desert, the concubines

The Steel Seraglio

✍ Carey, Mike; Carey, Linda; Carey, Louise 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 ChiZine 🌐 English ⚖ 956 KB

The sultan Bokhari Al-Bokhari of Bessa has 365 concubines— until a violent coup puts the city in the hands of the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. Hakkim has no use for the pleasures of the flesh: he condemns the women first to exile and then to death. Cast into the desert, the concubines must rely o

The City of Silk and Steel

✍ Carey, Mike; Carey, Linda; Carey, Louise 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Gollancz 🌐 English ⚖ 295 KB

Once, in a city known as Bessa, there was a sultan named Bokhari Al-Bokhari, who was thrown down by the zealots of the ascetic Hakkim Mehdad. The sultan, his wives and children were put to the sword, while his 365 concubines were sent to a neighbouring caliph as tribute, Hakkim having no use for the