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Coming soon!

The Cairo Codex, to be published by Hundred Heads in 2013

“Delhi is a great place—most bazaar storytellers in India make their villain hail from there; but when the agony and intrigue are piled highest and the tale halts till the very last breathless sprinkle of cowries has ceased to fall on his mat, why then, with wagging head and hooked forefinger, the storyteller goes on: “But there was a woman (I take the liberty with gender) from Cairo, an Egyptian of the Egyptians, who”—and all the crowd knows that a bit of real metropolitan devilry is coming.”

-Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel, 1908

A bit of real metropolitan devilry is coming!

 

 

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