The Empire of Gold
core novel 2020 The Daevabad Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.49 (81,868 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780062678188 |
Synopsis
In the trilogy's conclusion, following the fall of Daevabad, the Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander Dara must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, war-weary people whose trust in both of them has been badly shaken. Meanwhile Nahri and Ali, separated from one another and stranded in Cairo far from the djinn world, face difficult choices about whether and how to return to the city to save those they were forced to leave behind. As old wounds and new dangers converge on Daevabad's palace and its rival tribes, the fates of everyone still inside hang on decisions none of the central characters are fully prepared to make.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Daevabad Trilogy
- Series: The Daevabad Trilogy core; position 3 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Notes
- From the series record (The Daevabad Trilogy): A completed trilogy drawing on Islamic folklore and Middle Eastern history (18th-century Cairo and a hidden djinn city). The City of Brass received multiple award nominations (Crawford Award, Compton Crook Award, Locus Award, British Fantasy Award, World Fantasy Award) and Chakraborty was a 2019 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer finalist -- all nominations, per Wikipedia's own bibliography page; no win was independently confirmed for any of these and none is registered as such.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Daevabad Trilogy: position 3 of 4: previous The Kingdom of Copper (2019) · next The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy (2022)
Sources
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