Shannon Chakraborty · 2023 · sea

Shannon Chakraborty's 2023 novel. The legendary pirate captain Amina al-Sirafi is lured out of retirement for one last job, sailing the medieval Indian Ocean from Salalah and Aden to Mogadishu and the island of Socotra. Reuniting her old crew, she faces sea monsters, sorcery and a supernatural threat across the twelfth-century waters of the Arabian Sea.

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   Salalah

   Amina al-Sirafi is coaxed out of quiet retirement in the mountains above the Omani coast by a wealthy woman whose granddaughter has been stolen.

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   Aden

   In the great Yemeni port she springs her old first mate Tinbu from the gallows and reclaims the Marawati to reassemble her legendary crew.

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   Mogadishu

   Down the Swahili coast she recruits her master navigator Majed, the only man who can chart a course to a cursed pirate isle.

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   Socotra

   On the strange, dragon-blood-tree island of Socotra she confronts the Frankish sorcerer Falco, the demon Raksh, and the perilous Moon of Saba.

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   Salalah

   Changed by what she has seen, Amina sails home to her daughter, though the sea and a bargain with the peris will call her back.