The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories

Review\nFinalist for the World Fantasy, Locus, and Shirley Jackson Awards\n"Exquisite and audacious, and highly recommended" - The New York Times\n"Ignites like the creature it profiles... a rich and illuminating cultural experience." - The Washington Post\n"Entertaining, sexy and mischievous" - Marina Warner\n"Gorgeous" - Tor.com\n"A treasure chest of literally wonderful and marvelous stories, with a kind of richness that fantasy only rarely achieves." - Tim Powers\nImagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. And they are everywhere.\nOn street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows their traditions. Every religion, every history has them hiding in their dark places. There is no part of the world that does not know them. They are the Djinn. They are among us.
With stories from: Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, Helene Wecker, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine King, Claire North, E.J. Swift, Hermes (trans. Robin Moger), Jamal Mahjoub, James Smythe, J.Y. Yang, Kamila Shamsie, Kirsty Logan, K.J. Parker, Kuzhali Manickavel, Maria Dahvana Headley, Monica Byrne, Saad Hossain, Sami Shah, Sophia Al-Maria, and Usman Malik.\nFrom the Author\nOur authors come from all around the world, and have brought to these pages a vast and wonderful variety of djinn. We have wish-granters and shape-changers, immortals and spirits, hoarders and hermits. They come in all shapes and sizes (even bottles), and are truly marvellous creatures.\n(From the introduction by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin)