About the book: 2013 / Whatever fantastic story Diana Wynne Jones, author of the famous Worlds of Chrestomanci series, tells the reader, you definitely won’t be bored. This time, Scheherazade herself might envy her. The reader can expect a magical detective story and a fairy tale, deceit and love, the kidnapping of a princess (and more than one), transcendental lands and a castle in the air, sultry deserts and forest thickets, robbers and wizards, as well as the already familiar heroes of Howl’s Moving Castle. Once upon a time there was a in a distant southern country, a young man named Abdullah. He sold carpets at the bazaar, but more than anything else he loved to build castles in the air, dream of miracles and dream of marrying a beautiful princess. But before Abdullah had time to actually acquire a magic flying carpet and meet the real princess herself, his calm life ended: the lovely Flower-in-the-Night was immediately kidnapped by a terrible ifrit. And exciting adventures began... Soon Abdullah, willy-nilly, found out that castles in the air are more than real, and the people (and not only people) you meet on your travels are not at all who they seem at first glance!