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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very unique book. I loved the fairy/folk tale feel of the book and learned much about these tales in Jewish and Middle Eastern culture. Yet the book was so much more than a magical story; it was about finding your place in this world and the importance of free will. I loved Chava and her journey to find her humanity. I loved this book. Wecker is a master of nuance and the telling detail. I completely fell in love with the flawed, heart-achingly complex characters of Chava and Ahmed. Wecker's beautiful writing made all the characters deliciously fascinating, and the setting was so vivid, every time I set the book down, I felt disoriented. I honestly feel like I have been living in the old Jewish and Syrian neighborhoods of turn of the century New York. I hated for it to end, but it did. And it ended in a way that, unlike so many recent books, did not fizzle or disappoint. Five stars.
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 emotion keep the pages flipping. Pertenece a las seriesPertenece a las series editorialesHarper Perennial Olive Editions (2020 Olive) PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
El impresionante debut de Helene Wecker narra la historia de dos criaturas sobrenaturales en el Nueva York de 1899. Chava es un golem, un ser hecho de arcilla al que dio vida un extraño hombre familiarizado con la magia negra cabalística. Cuando su amo muere a bordo en el trayecto transoceánico desde Europa, queda desorientada y a la deriva mientras el barco sigue su curso hasta el puerto de Nueva York. Ahmad es un genio, un ser de fuego nacido en el desierto de la antigua Siria. Atrapado en un viejo jarro de cobre por un hechicero beduino varios siglos atrás, es liberado por accidente en el taller de un hojalatero del Bajo Manhattan. En su lucha por abrirse camino en ese lugar nuevo y extraño, la golem y el genio procuran encajar con sus vecinos, todos ellos inmigrantes, encubriendo su verdadera naturaleza. Al conocerse por casualidad, las dos criaturas inician una improbable amistad, una unión quebradiza que desafía sus naturalezas opuestas, hasta la noche en que un horrible incidente las devuelve a sus universos respectivos. Sin embargo, una potente amenaza volverá a reunir pronto a ambos: estará en juego su existencia, lo que les obligará a tomar una fatídica decisión. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Overall highly recommended to fiction buffs, those who like old New York, or fans of "classic" literary excellence. ( )