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01469aam a22002775a 4500 001 55D3558AD89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210629010024 008 210108s2013 |||| ||| |||||||||||| 020 $a 0062110845 020 $a 9780062110848 040 $d SILO 082 00 $a FIC 100 1 $a Wecker, Helene 245 14 $a The Golem and the Jinni $c by Helene Wecker. 260 $a USA $b Harper Perennial $c 2014 300 $a 512 p. 490 $a Golem and the Jinni ; $v Book 1 520 $a Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899. 520 $a Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free 520 $a Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale. 655 $a Fantasy. 655 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119015632.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=55D3558AD89F11EB81BA7E5E52ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search