![]() ![]() ![]() But when the golem's violent nature overtakes her one evening, their bond is challenged. Chava and Ahmad meet accidentally and become friends and soul mates despite their opposing natures. An iron band around his wrist binds him to the wizard and to the physical world. Released by a Syrian tinsmith in a Manhattan shop, Ahmad appears in human form but is still not free. Ahmad 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. 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. She serves as the wife to a Polish merchant who dies at sea on the voyage to America. ![]() Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the ways of dark Kabbalistic magic. Wecker's storytelling skills dazzle." -Entertainment Weekly A marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. "An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. ![]()
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