{"id":15535,"date":"2022-08-14T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=15535"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:23:44","slug":"m-t-khan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/m-t-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"M. T. Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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M.T. Khan was born in Pakistan and now lives in Toronto. She earned a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering at McMaster University. Myth, science and philosophy are topics that she tackles in speculative fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amir and the Jinn Princess<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Jimmy Patterson Books, 2024.
PZ7.1.K52652 A65 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Twelve-year-old Amir is one of the heirs to the Rafiq Bricks Company, a wealthy brick kiln business in Pakistan\u2014except he wants none of it. Seeing straight through the jeweled smiles and transactional conversations, Amir would rather spend time in the courtyard garden, where he can almost feel his missing mother\u2019s presence again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amir is devastated when his baba announces plans to remarry by the end of the summer, dropping all searches to find Amir\u2019s mother. It\u2019s all a business move, just like everything else in his life. His mother was the only one who allowed him to feel normal, but the last anyone\u2019s seen of her was a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Amir isn\u2019t ready to give up yet\u2014determined to find his mother before his life changes forever, Amir teams up with a high-spirited, wide-eyed, shape-shifting jinn princess named Shamsa. His exact opposite. The two make a deal\u2014Shamsa will help Amir navigate the twisty and mysterious realm of jinn, and in exchange Amir must use his wits to help Shamsa win a tournament of heirs and put her on the throne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nura and the Immortal Palace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Jimmy Patterson Books, 2022.
PZ7.1.K52652 N87 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things\u2014to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But it\u2019s not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. Local rumor says there\u2019s buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family\u2019s life forever.

Her plan backfires when the mines collapse and four kids, including her best friend, Faisal, are claimed dead. Nura refuses to believe it and shovels her way through the dirt hoping to find him. Instead, she finds herself at the entrance to a strange world of purple skies and pink seas\u2014a portal to the opulent realm of jinn, inhabited by the trickster creatures from her mother\u2019s cautionary tales. Yet they aren\u2019t nearly as treacherous as her mother made them out to be, because Nura is invited to a luxury jinn hotel, where she\u2019s given everything she could ever imagine and more. 

But there\u2019s a dark truth lurking beneath all that glitter and gold, and when Nura crosses the owner\u2019s son and is banished to the working quarters, she realizes she isn\u2019t the only human who\u2019s ended up in the hotel\u2019s clutches. Faisal and the other missing children are there, too, and if Nura can\u2019t find a way to help them all escape, they\u2019ll be bound to work for the hotel forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set in a rural industrial town in Pakistan and full of hope, heart, and humor, Nura and the Immortal Palace<\/em> is inspired by M.T. Khan\u2019s own Pakistani Muslim heritage. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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M. T. Khan personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Jimmy Patterson Books<\/a>, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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