Bibliograph

The hidden palace, a novel of the golem and the jinni, Helene Wecker

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The hidden palace, a novel of the golem and the jinni, Helene Wecker

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The hidden palace

Oclc number

1252918923

Responsibility statement

Helene Wecker

Series statement

Golem and the jinni, 2]

Sub title

a novel of the golem and the jinni

Summary

"Chava is a golem, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Pretending to be human, they are just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. 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, and meets a female jinni who has been banished from her tribe. In New York a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele. -- adapted from jacket

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