Bird King - G. Willow Wilson Zafon and then the boss walks

and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end

The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson

and the real world has become an ugly place

But human nature is not the only enemy

Bird King - G. Willow Wilson Zafon and then the boss walks'The Bird King' is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel 'Alif the Unseen' established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. 'The Bird King' tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker. Hassan has a secret he can draw