![]() Jin’s true ambitions, allegiances and identity are only gradually revealed. The two head off into the desert together. Things don’t go according to plan, and when the teasingly named foreigner, Jin, blows up the town’s explosives factory, Amani throws in her lot with him in order to escape. ![]() Tales her mother had told her about Izman, “city of a thousand golden domes”, prompt her to run away and start a new life. Deemed to be in need of a husband who might be able to “finally beat some sense into her”, Amani discovers that she is about to be married to her uncle. He dubs her the “blue-eyed bandit”.Īs her mother was hanged for killing her drunkard father (he called her “a used-up foreigner’s whore who couldn’t give him a son”), Amani lives with her aunt and uncle and his innumerable offspring. She also meets a dark foreigner with “the uncanniest eyes I’d ever seen”. ![]() Naturally, Amani is an ace shot, and during the course of the evening she proves her mettle. ![]() It’s the first of many tongue-in-cheek one-liners from a plucky and resourceful heroine who is easy to root for. ![]()
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