The Kingdom of Copper
core novel 2019 The Daevabad Trilogy
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.38 (99,158 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780062678140 |
Synopsis
In the second book of the Daevabad Trilogy, Nahri must navigate the political dangers of Daevabad in the uneasy aftermath of the events that first brought her to the city, now formally recognized as a Nahid healer but with far less freedom than that status might suggest. Prince Ali, exiled from the city for reasons tied to his own convictions, uncovers troubling secrets about his family's past and the true cost of the peace that holds Daevabad's tribes together. As both Nahri and Ali are pulled back toward the city and its long-simmering tensions, old loyalties are tested and new dangers emerge from within the palace itself.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Daevabad Trilogy
- Series: The Daevabad Trilogy core; position 2 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 2 of 4: previous The City of Brass (2017) · next The Empire of Gold (2020)
Sources
← The Daevabad Trilogy dossier · All universes
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