Blurb:
Chava
is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man
who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of
fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Trapped in an old copper
flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally
by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop.
Struggling
to make their way in 1899 New York, the Golem and the Jinni try to
fit in with their immigrant neighbors while masking their true
selves. Meeting by chance, they become unlikely friends whose tenuous
attachment challenges their opposing natures, until the night a
terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. But
a powerful menace will soon bring the Golem and the Jinni together
again, threatening their existence and forcing them to make a fateful
choice.
Marvelous
and compulsively readable, The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of
folk mythology, historical fiction, and magical fable into a
wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.
My
thoughts:
For
me it felt like one of those more quiet books. It was a sort of
folktale told, it was sweet, sad and made you wonder....
A
man goes to a rabbi and tells him to make him a wife. And the rabbi
makes a Golem, the best one ever made. Then Chava is brought to New
York.
"Ahmad"
is a djinni, free and curious. Until the day a wizard captures him
and he awakes a thousand years later in New York.
They
are both lost, not human, and trying to find their way. Trying to act
as human as they can. To figure out what life really is. They will
eventually meet and for a moment feel like they are not alone in the
world.
I
liked how the book was real, but at the same time, maybe there used
to be Djinni, maybe there still are, but they have learned to be
hidden. Maybe a rabbi of the old really could create a golem. So it
works.
I
already said it felt quiet, and it did. The pace was, ok not slow,
but not fast. Stuff did not need to happen, we could just go with the
flow, experience thing. It was the way this story had to be told and
it worked splendidly that way.
Interesting
and beautifully told.
Paperback,
484 pages
Published
April 2013 by Blue Door
Fiction
Own
3 comments:
It sounds like an interesting one. It's the first time I hear about it.
Tuesday, sigh
I WANT this one.
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