Djinns

In Jai’s real-time world of increasingly harrowing uncertainty, a dark world that defies easy explanations and resists logic, the djinns represent a strategy not for understanding that world but for accepting the world as too complicated for human understanding. Although they are elements of ancient folklore, the djinns represent a distinctly contemporary awareness of the contradictory nature of human experience, the lack of stable moral absolutes, and the unreliability of ever defining good and evil. Within the Muslim culture, djinns are ever-present, shape-shifting supernatural agents forever involving themselves in human affairs. Djinns can be used to explain both good and bad luck because they are known for answering desperate prayers and for thwarting human efforts with capricious glee. They are thus responsible for both misfortune and for hope. As such they combine the Christian ideas of angels and devils. As Jai begins his detective work...