THE GOLEM AND THE DJINNI is a much slower, gentler book than I would usually read. But a powerful threat will soon bring Chava and Ahmad together again, challenging their existence and forcing them to make a fateful choice. These unlikely friends’ tenuous attachment challenges their opposing natures – until the night a terrifying incident drives them back into their separate worlds. Though he is no longer imprisoned, Ahmad is not entirely free – an unbreakable band of iron binds him to the physical world. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. When her master, the husband who commissioned her, dies at sea on the voyage from Poland, she is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York in 1899.Īhmad is a djinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian desert. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic.
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