“At once her senses alerted her to someone else’s presence at the shore. Her inhaled air remained hostage in her chest as her heart almost stopped beating. She tried to run away from the creature slowly pacing toward her, but her legs gave up and would not move an inch from where she was standing. Badr Jamal looked at a human, slowly approaching her. She had never seen any human being in her entire life. She stood dumbfounded and stared at him. There was something in the weak body convincing her so she dropped the idea of running away and felt inside her heart a delicate and unknown feeling of pleasure.”
As Grandma paused, Ali concluded, “And they lived happily ever after.”
Grandma shook her index finger and said, “No, my child, here is the interesting part. Badr Jamal confessed that she couldn’t stay with the Prince.”
“But why?” Usama cried at once.
Grandma smiled at his unexpected emotions. Usama lowered his gaze and blushed.
“Prince Saif asked the same question,” Grandma replied, “as he saw Badr Jamal’s milky white face turn pale and she shuttered like a dry leaf…”
Just a short excerpt from Tayyaba Amir's The Chronicles of Deosai, an original Muslim folktale, her exciting, breathtaking and inspirational story for young adult readers. With the folktale of Prince Saif-ul-Malook and the fairy Badr Jamal as the backdrop, stepbrothers Usama and Ali and Ali’s cousins Sarah and Zohaib, along with their sets of parents, find themselves in a thrilling, death-defying adventure with giants, a troll and fairies in Deosai in Pakistan.
Author: Tayyaba Amir
Publisher: Inked Resistance Islamic Publishing
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 266
ISBN: 9781775011255
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