The Hidden Palace
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Sequel to: The golem and the jinni.
Chava is a golem, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. Pretending to be human, they are just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure, and meets a female jinni who has been banished from her tribe. In New York a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele - not knowing that she's about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector. Spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the 20th century to the beginning of World War I, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart - especially once they encounter, thrillingly, other beings like themselves? -- adapted from jacket.
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SERIES
The Golem and the Jinni
2
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 472 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062468710
9780062468727
SUBJECTS
Golem -- Fiction.
Jinn -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Jewish mythology -- Fiction.
Mythology, Arab -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
Middle East -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fantasy fiction.