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In The Golem and the Jinni, an opportunity meeting between mythological creatures takes visitors on a stunning journey through civilizations consequently-of-the-millennium New York.Chava is just a golem, a creature made of clay, delivered to life to with a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dim Kabbalistic wonder and dies at sea on the trip from Belgium. Chava is unmoored and adrift whilst the vessel arrives in New York harbor in 1899.Ahmad is just a jinni, a being of flame created in the age-old Syrian leave, caught within an aged copper flask, and launched in New York Area, although still not completely freeAhmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates having a magical link. Wonderful and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut book The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle-Eastern literature, historical fiction and wonderful myth, right into a wondrously creative and memorable story.