We Hunt the Flame

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Hafsah Faizal: We Hunt the Flame (2019, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

English language

Published Nov. 3, 2019 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-31156-8
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PEOPLE LIVED BECAUSE SHE KILLED.

PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE HE LIVED.

ZAFIRA IS THE HUNTER, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected; if Nasir displays his compassion, his father will punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both Zafira and Nasir are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya--but neither wants to be.

War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. While Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill …

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Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Magic, fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Middle east, fiction