![]() ![]() Not far away, a rabbi happens upon a secret book that contains the recipe for making a golem-a project fraught with peril but one that turns out to be helpful to his daughter, Kreindel, after bad fortune lands her in an orphanage. Meanwhile, back in New York, Chava, now known as Chava Levy, and Ahmad find each other again, performing miraculous labors, she as a champion baker who, of course, doesn’t need to sleep and he as an “iron-bound” figure in human form who works diligently, in self-imposed exile, for a Syrian immigrant tinsmith. Lawrence-soon to be known as Lawrence of Arabia-and Gertrude Bell. ![]() And now, Sophia Winston, known as Saffiyah among the Bedouins she visits-“Saffiyah the stranger, Saffiyah the afflicted”-has a big problem: Having been touched by the jinni, the spirit of pure fire, she can’t get warm, even in the blast furnace of the desert, where, among other historical characters, she runs into a certain Thomas E. I’m not certain how it happened, I only know that I was the cause,” he confesses to Chava. Bound to each other by love, they have nonetheless parted long enough for Ahmad to have had a brief affair with a human. In a blend of romance, Mary Shelley–esque horror, and folklore, Wecker recounts the continuing adventures of Chava, the Jewish golem, and Ahmad, the Arabian jinni. ![]() Wecker returns, eight years after The Golem and the Jinni, with a sequel that brings the saga into the 20th century. ![]()
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