![]() ![]() The other is a jinni, belonging to that volatile race of spirits who ride the winds of the Arabian desert, until he was captured by human wizardry and confined to a copper flask for a thousand years. One is a creature from Jewish folklore made out of clay-no, not a dreidel, but a golem, a monster animated by mystical secrets of rabbinic lore. Through turnings of fate typical of the history of our immigrant nation, two uncanny beings from overseas wind up in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. Helene Wecker must be a born writer there is no other way to account for the quality of her prose, as phenomenal as any of the supernatural wonders she delivers in the glorious The Golem and the Jinni. ![]() ![]() You’re in for the most exciting fantasy debut since Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Turn off the cell phone, shut down the computer and settle down in your comfiest chair. ![]()
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