The creatures’ folkloric natures are both powerful and vulnerable. But then, the only alternative was to conclude that he’d gone mad.” There is in fact plenty of madness in this clever story, but the magic of it often makes more sense than the ways of the humans with whom the golem and the jinni now live. “It was ludicrous,” thinks the surprised tinker. The other is a jinni from the Syrian desert, trapped inside a copper flask until a hapless tinsmith sets him free during a routine repair. One is a golem, a clay woman fashioned near Danzig, then shipped across the ocean as the wife of a man who inconveniently dies on the voyage. In Helene Wecker’s first novel, two more than usually disoriented foreigners emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York.
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