Like Alif, you might write her off as a certain type of Middle Eastern stereotype initially. She is seriously one of the best characters I’ve seen in a long time. He means well, and I trust that he’ll figure his shit out eventually.īut Alif’s neighbor Dina. And he is about to unleash a destructive power that will change everything and everyone - starting with Alif himself.I like Alif! He’s kind of an imbecile that I want to facepunch 90% of the time, but I know a ton of similarly frustrating dudes, and I like them just the same.

Thus begins an adventure that takes him through the crumbling streets of a once-beautiful city, to uncover the long-forgotten mysteries of the Unseen.

When Alif comes into possession of a mysterious book entitled The Thousand and One Days, he discovers a door to another world - a world from a very different time, when old magic was in the ascendant and the djinn walked amongst us. He calls himself Alif, a young man born in a Middle Eastern city that straddles the ancient and modern. I will tell you a story, but it comes with a warning when you hear it, you will become someone else.

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