Harper
May 2013
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Featuring: Chava; Ahmad
496 pages ISBN: 0062110837 EAN: 9780062110831 Kindle: B008QXVDJ0 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to
life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark
Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from
Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives
in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient
Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and
released in New York City, though still not entirely free
Ahmad and become unlikely friends and soul mates
with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively
readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the
Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern
literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a
wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.