The Golem and the Djinni

The Golem and the Djinni

by Helene Wecker
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/04/2013

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‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVER


For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.


‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ Guardian


One cold night, two newcomers emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York, and it is never the same again.


But these two are more than strangers to this land, they are strangers to this world. From the depths of folkloric history come Chava the golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi and Ahmad, a djinni, born in the ancient Syrian desert and trapped in an old copper flask released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop.


Two companions who were never meant to be released, and never meant to meet. And when they do, their opposing natures will be sealed by a special bond, but one that is threatened by watching eyes, roaming owners and a misunderstanding world.


A glittering gem of a novel, as spell-binding as it is compelling, The Golem and The Djinni asks us what we’re made of and how we can break free.

ISBN:
9780007527151
9780007527151
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-04-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker grew up near Chicago, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in New York. Her work has been published in the online magazine Joyland, and she has read from her stories at the KGB Bar in New York and the Barbershop Reading Series in San Francisco.

After a dozen years of moving around between both coasts and the Midwest, she now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter. The Golem and the Djinni is her first novel.

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