5/25/2023 0 Comments Golem e o Gênio by Helene Wecker![]() ![]() Spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. Back in New York, in a tenement on the Lower East Side, 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. ![]() There she meets a tempestuous female jinni who’s been banished from her tribe. ![]() 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. Having encountered each other under calamitous circumstances, Chava and Ahmad’s lives are now entwined-but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other.Įach has unwittingly affected the humans around them. Fearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and pretend to be human-just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Ahmad is a jinni, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man. ![]() Cover of The Hidden Palace by Helene WeckerĬhava is a golem, a woman made of clay, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. ![]()
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