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Also by Helene Wecker:

The Gates Of Midnight, September 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Hidden Palace, June 2022
Paperback / e-Book
The Hidden Palace, June 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Golem And The Jinni, December 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Golem And The Jinni, May 2013
Hardcover / e-Book

THE GOLEM AND THE JINNI
By: Helene Wecker

Harper Perennial
December 2013
On Sale: December 31, 2013
Featuring: Chava
512 pages
ISBN: 0062110845
EAN: 9780062110848
Kindle: B008QXVDJ0
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Hardcover (May 2013)

Fantasy Urban

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. 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 Chava 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.