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We’re thrilled to share the cover for
Kundo Wakes Up, the standalone sequel to Saad Z. Hossain’s
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday edited by Jonathan Strahan, arriving in March 2022 from Tordotcom Publishing.
In this standalone follow-up to the fan favorite
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday Saad Z. Hossain continues to mix futurism with fable, and shows how strange our lives might become.
While
Gurkha introduced us to the techno utopia of Kathmandu,
Kundo takes us to Hossain’s native Bangladesh, to the fading city of Chittagong, which is slowly crumbling into the sea as even Karma goes silent. But Kundo’s contemplation of his dying city is interrupted when his wife leaves him and then goes inexplicably missing, and soon Kundo starts to connect the dots between a number of disappearances. But this is Hossain, and so there’s more afoot than techno shenanigans. Kundo will find that the veil between worlds is paper-thin, and the djinn have their own stake in the