{"product_id":"the-hidden-palace-a-novel-of-the-golem-and-the-jinni-isbn-9780062468727","title":"The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Richly nuanced and beautiful. . . . An immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope.” (Buzzfeed)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A layered novel of many complex characters…To keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses.” (Historical Novels Review) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this enthralling historical fantasy epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I— the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Golem\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the Jinni\u003c\/i\u003e—Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChava 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 they’ll be exposed as monsters, these supernatural beings hide their true selves and try to pass as human—just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Brought together under calamitous circumstances, their lives are now entwined—but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth 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 who’s 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a sprawling work of literary fantasy spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Palace\u003c\/i\u003e 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 apart—especially once they encounter, thrillingly, other beings like themselves?\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Richly nuanced and beautiful.  . . . Wecker skillfully draws together these disparate lives and characters in an immersive and magical tale of loneliness, love, and finding hope.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In Wecker’s novel, real-life events—the sinking of the \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire or the Great War—have an inexorable impact on mortal and supernatural characters alike. From one crisis to the next, a strange and unbreakable alliance develops among many persons and elemental creatures, burgeoning into something even more marvelous. . . . Fans of \u003cem\u003eThe Golem and the Jinni\u003c\/em\u003e have waited eight years for this sequel. It has been worth the wait.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A blend of romance, Mary Shelley-esque horror, and folklore. . . . Wecker skillfully combines the storylines of Chava the Golem and Ahmad the Jinni and numerous other players, good and evil, in an enchanting tale that pleases on every page.”                            - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Impressive…storytelling à la Dickens…A satisfying, mature sequel to \u003cem\u003eThe Golem and the Jinni\u003c\/em\u003e, continuing the magical story of two immigrant mythological characters from the turn of the 20th century to the outbreak of WWI.”                           - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A measured, gorgeous, character-driven fantasy.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTor.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Palace\u003c\/em\u003e recaptures the assured voice, the delicate magic, the solid historical verisimilitude, and engaging interplay of personalities of \u003cem\u003eThe Golem and\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ethe Jinni\u003c\/em\u003e…But Wecker deepens, extends, and culminates all the story arcs, leaving the reader very satisfied.”           - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A layered novel of many complex characters, including even richer developments of the golem Chava and the jinni Ahmad\u003cstrong\u003e…\u003c\/strong\u003eTo keep their worlds safe, Chava and Ahmad must access both their greatest supernatural powers and their deepest human impulses.\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical Novels Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rich literary novel that digs into what it means to be human, by setting up a series of meaningful contrasts from characters who aren’t.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolygon Best Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction Novel of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the delights of \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Palace\u003c\/em\u003e is that it traverses many genres as it continues the tale of the unlikely friendship between Chava Levy, a golem, and Ahmad al-Hadid, a jinni…A work of fantasy, historical fiction, modern-day mythology or even romance…A gem deserving a wide readership.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHadassah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889711116517,"sku":"NP9780062468727","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062468727.jpg?v=1730231794","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-hidden-palace-a-novel-of-the-golem-and-the-jinni-isbn-9780062468727","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}