Whatever fantastic story Diana Wynn Jones, author of the acclaimed Worlds of Crestomancy series, tells the reader, you will definitely not be bored. This time, Scheherazade herself can envy her. The reader is waiting for a magical detective story and a fairy tale, deceit and love, the abduction of a princess (and more than one), sky-high lands and an air castle, sultry deserts and thickets, robbers and wizards, as well as the heroes of Howl's Moving Castle already familiar to him.
There once lived in a distant southern country a young man named Abdullah. He sold carpets in the market, but more than anything else he loved to build castles in the air, dream of miracles and dream of marrying a beautiful princess. But Abdulla did not have time to really acquire a magic carpet-plane and get to know the real princess herself, as a quiet life ended: the lovely Flower-in-Night was immediately kidnapped by a terrible ifrit. And the exciting adventure began...
Soon, Abdullah, willy-nilly, found out that castles in the air are more than real, and the people (and not only people) that you meet on your travels are not at all what they seem at first glance!
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Illustrations: Elena Gozman
Translation: Anastasia Brodotskaya
Pages: 416 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 126x200 mm
