![]() ![]() ![]() Wecker moves about a dozen principal characters in and out of her book with the assurance of a Russian novelist. "No golem has ever existed that did not eventually run amok," the mystic tells Rotfeld.Īhmad, the jinn, is also physically powerful and can insinuate himself into a person's dreams.īut the flesh-and-blood world that author Helene Wecker (a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield) creates around them is just as magical as the creatures themselves: the rabbi who becomes Chava's first guardian Michael, the rabbi's nephew who eventually marries Chava the tinsmith who frees Ahmad from the flask, and Saleh, the ice cream-maker of Little Syria. Chava, the name the golem takes on, reads your thoughts, is strong, and, like a lion who has tasted human blood, dangerous. ![]() Helene Wecker, author of “The Golem and the Jinni.”īoth creatures are, of course, powerful. ![]()
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