The Golem and the Jinni Wecker HelenePaperback
The Golem and the Jinni Wecker HelenePaperback "An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America.…
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The Golem and the Jinni Wecker HelenePaperback
"An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. Wecker's storytelling skills dazzle." --Entertainment WeeklyA marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York.Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic.
Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad As the ship arrives in New York in 1899, Chava is unmoored and adrift until a rabbi on the Lower East Side recognizes her for the creature she is and takes her in.Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped centuries ago in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard.