Say you're a fan of fantasy and sci-fi, with supernatural beings living right beside us, right out of sight. Or perhaps you're more interested in more of a political/social novel, where a young revolutionary uses their skills to undermine an oppressive government. Maybe you're more in the mood for a good YA romance, where the hero finally falls for the girl who's been under his nose the entire time. Maybe you're into exotic locales where the present has deep ties to the past, and where history helps influence the present. Maybe you like high-tech thrillers, with groups of crusading hackers doing hacker things. With ALIF THE UNSEEN, a delightful mashup of a dozen different genres, you get all of these and more.

Fabulously entertaining - a blend of myth, digital gaming and adventure, with a dash of Arabic scholarship thrown in.

Insight into a contemporary Middle Eastern country whose ongoing transformations are unexpected and profound.

Wonderful book. I loved this book because it is timeless. It combines our modern day technology with religion and magic seamlessly. The story is incredibly detailed and I couldn't put the book down. I recommend this book to everyone.

I thought this was a terrific book. It's a really unusual combination--computer whiz at the heart of the Arab Spring uprisings with a hint of the Arabian Nights added in. Readable and thought-provoking. Good characterizations, too. A really unusual and excellent book that I would recommend to any fiction reader.

Excellent book with a really interesting and different story about Islamic culture and religion in a fictional Arabian Peninsula country