Castle in the Air

Abdullah is a young carpet merchant in the desert city of Zanzib who spends his days spinning elaborate daydreams about being a kidnapped prince. When a stranger sells him a shabby magic carpet, it carries him by night to a hidden garden and the lovely princess Flower-in-the-Night, and the two fall in love before she is snatched away by a djinn. Abdullah's hunt to rescue her sweeps in a bad-tempered genie in a bottle, a soldier with sticky fingers, a flying castle in the clouds, and a cast of stolen princesses. The Howl characters appear in disguise, and untangling who is really who becomes the heart of the comedy in this companion to Howl's Moving Castle.