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Available
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Description
Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.
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Publication
Harper Perennial (2013), Edition: Reprint, 512 pages
Pages
512
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Physical description
512 p.; 5.5 inches
Awards
Nebula Award (Nominee — Novel — 2013)
Audie Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2014)
Locus Award (Finalist — First Novel — 2014)
Mythopoeic Awards (Finalist — Adult Literature — 2014)
World Fantasy Award (Nominee — Novel — 2014)
National Jewish Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2013)
RUSA CODES Reading List (Shortlist — Fantasy — 2014)
Maine Readers' Choice Award (Finalist — 2014)
IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (Finalist — 2014)
Otherwise Award (Honor List — 2013)
VCU Cabell First Novelist Award (Winner — 2014)
Harold U. Ribalow Prize (2014)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Debut Fiction — 2013)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction/Poetry — 2013)
Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice (Fantasy)
The A.V. Club best books (2013)
Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List (Selection — 2014)
Media reviews
The title characters of “The Golem and the Jinni” are not the book’s only magic. The story is so inventive, so elegantly written and so well constructed that it’s hard to believe this is a first novel. Clearly, otherworldly forces were involved.
You think a relationship is complicated when a woman is from Venus and a man is from Mars? Trust me, that’s a piece of cake compared with the hurdles that a modest golem and a mercurial jinni face when they fall in love.
The sometimes slow pace picks up considerably as the disparate characters decipher the past and try to save the souls variously threatened by the golem and the jinni, as well as by the Jewish conjurer and (surprise) a Syrian wizard. The interplay of loyalties and the struggle to assert reason over
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PS3623.E39773
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ISBN
0062110845 / 9780062110848