Kundo Wakes Up

Saad Z. Hossain is back with an equally quippy and genre-defying companion novel to The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, filled with an entirely new set of djinn-fueled antics.

Hundreds of miles away from the techno-utopia of Kathmandu, the all-powerful, all-seeing AI known as Karma has gone silent, leaving the dying city of Chittagong — along with all its remaining residents — to continue its inexorable fall into the sea.

Kundo, once a famous artist with the Karma points to prove it, goes searching for his missing wife, only to uncover more inexplicable disappearances. And so Kundo and a group of motley companions embark on a tumultuous journey through an overwhelming maze made up of Chittagong’s neighborhoods, the hidden backrooms of video game parlors, and the depths of cyberspace, culminating in the realm of the djinn themselves, in search of love, redemption, and a good meal.

ISBN: 9781250823922 | Published: 11 October 2022 | Paperback | 208 pages