![]() ![]() I loved their contrasting personalities and how that didn’t drive them apart but rather made them even closer and their dynamic together just made me constantly smile. Once the jinni and the golem finally met though, well the story just got better from there. I think my only issue was that it felt like it took forever for things to happen in the beginning, which was mostly filled with descriptions and character origin stories, but still interesting. This was a pleasure to listen to, with wonderful world-building, a plethora of characters and intertwining stories, and an over-arcing plot that was beautiful and captivating. 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. ![]() Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.Īhmad 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 freeĪhmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. ![]() Publish Date: Ap(audiobook published April 23, 2013)Ĭhava 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. The Golem and the Jinni ( The Golem and the Jinni #1) , by Helene Wecker ![]()
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