Ian McDonald by The Dervish House

Author:The Dervish House [House, The Dervish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2010-10-04T07:00:00+00:00

“You wait thirty-one years for a prophet and then another one turns up.” Mustafa raps the flat screen with the back of his hand. The first thing he does every day is to read the online papers, at length, over tea.

The djinn have been quiet since the judgement in the Tulip Mosque orderly. They are still present, thick in the air as pages in a book, and as rich. Bound, disciplined. Necdet doubts that it's his own doing. Do they obey God's shariat, as ordered by the Adem Dede dervishes, or the mastery of Hızır?

“Did you hear that? Do you listen to anything I say? I said, you're not the only one.”

“What?”

“There's a woman out in Ereğli. She sees into souls. Peri and all kinds of fairy folk are speaking to her. People are coming from all over for cures and healings and fortune-tellings, all that sort of thing. It's all in Cumhuriyet.”

Necdet cranes over Mustafa's shoulder to read the article. He flicks down the article, stops abruptly at a bad photograph of a motherly woman.

“That's her.”

“The Prophetess of Ereğli. I think that's slightly over-egging it.”

“No no, her. Her. I need to go there. I need to talk to her. I know her. I've seen her before. She was standing right beside me on the tram when the bomb went off.”

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