{"title":"Golem and the Jinni","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-golem-and-the-jinni","title":"The Golem and the Jinni","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker's storytelling skills dazzle.\" --Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA marvelous and absorbing debut historical fantasy novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAhmad 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. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates--unlikely souls connected despite their opposing natures. But when the golem's violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. An even more powerful threat will emerge, however, and bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their very existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompulsively readable, \u003ci\u003eThe Golem and the Jinni\u003c\/i\u003e weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, in a wondrously inventive tale that is mesmerizing and unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51805034610921,"sku":"9780062110848","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/7429\/9369\/files\/Golem_and_the_Jinni_The.jpg?v=1788661454"},{"product_id":"the-hidden-palace","title":"The Hidden Palace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope.\" (Buzzfeed)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A layered novel of many complex characters...To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses.\" (Historical Novels Review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I-- the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Golem\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Jinni\u003c\/i\u003e--Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing they'll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and try to pass as human--just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Brought together under calamitous circumstances, their lives are now entwined--but they're not yet certain of what they mean to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth Chava and Ahmad have changed the lives of the people around them. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure. There she meets Dima, a tempestuous female jinni who's been banished from her tribe. Back in New York, in a tenement on the Lower East Side, a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele--not knowing that she's about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Palace\u003c\/i\u003e follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart--especially once they encounter, thrillingly, other beings like themselves?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51805035036905,"sku":"9780062468727","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/7429\/9369\/files\/Hidden_Palace_The.webp?v=1788661454"},{"product_id":"the-gates-of-midnight","title":"The Gates of Midnight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wecker is a marvelous storyteller.\"--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker's storytelling skills dazzle.\"-- \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, the second book in Helene Wecker's Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to Syria with the copper flask that holds the captured wizard Yehudah Schaalman. There in the desert he buries the flask for all time... or so he thinks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of Midnight, \u003c\/i\u003e the riveting conclusion to the saga of the \u003ci\u003eGolem and the Jinni\u003c\/i\u003e, it's 1930 and three decades have passed since Schaalman's defeat. Chava the golem quietly tends to her house and garden in Brooklyn, hoping to create a refuge for other magical beings. Meanwhile, Ahmad has found employment as an architect in Chicago, helping to build its towering skyline above the prairie.\u003cbr\u003eBut all is not well in the desert. Schaalman has managed to trick an unsuspecting passerby into digging up the flask, and now it passes from hand to hand as the wizard possesses his victims -- first a French soldier traveling to New York, then a small-time mobster -- all in an effort to get to Chava, the only one who can release him from his prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile others are gravitating to New York as well: Ahmad, who has lost his job following the 1929 stock market crash; the mysterious Thomas Beshara, a riveter on the rising Empire State Building, who also has hidden ties to Chava and Ahmad; and Kreindel Altschul, who still grieves her own destroyed golem Yossele. Does the reluctant Kreindel hold the key to saving Chava from Schaalman's revenge? Will Schaalman succeed in escaping the flask, binding Chava to his will, and re-enslaving Ahmad? Or can they find a way to finally defeat him and free themselves from his power? An earth-shaking finale to the brilliant trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":51805035954409,"sku":"9780062468680","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/7429\/9369\/files\/Gates_of_Midnight_The.webp?v=1788661454"}],"url":"https:\/\/snowlockbooks.com\/collections\/golem-and-the-jinni.oembed","provider":"Snowlock Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}