Castle in the Air, Diana Wynne Jones's 1990 "companion" to her book, Howl's Moving Castle (later made into an excellent Studio Ghibli film), strings you along for 250 pages or so before giving you any hint of its relation to the previous story.
Instead, we're introduced to a country called Zanzib and a humble carpet merchant living there named Abdullah. …
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