The Hidden PalaceAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 21 July 2022
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"Richly nuanced and beautiful.A . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope.â?? (Buzzfeed)â?oA layered novel of many complex charactersâ?▌To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses.â?? (Historical Novels Review) In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War Iâ?" the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinniâ?"Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world. Chava is a golem, a woman made of clay, who can hear the thoughts and longings of those around her and feels compelled by her nature to help them. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. Fearing theyâ?Tll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and try to pass as humanâ?"just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Brought together under calamitous circumstances, their lives are now entwinedâ?"but theyâ?Tre not yet certain of what they mean to each other. Both Chava and Ahmad have changed the lives of the people around them. 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. There she meets Dima, a tempestuous female jinni whoâ?Ts been banished from her tribe. 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 Yosseleâ?"not knowing that sheâ?Ts about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector. 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. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apartâ?"especially once they encounter, thrillingly, other beings like themselves?
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