The Golem and the Djinni

Informationen zum Autor Helene Wecker grew up near Chicago, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in New York. Her work has been published in the online magazine Joyland, and she has read from her stories at the KGB Bar in New York and the Barbershop Reading Series in San Francisco. After a dozen years of moving around between both coasts and the Midwest, she now lives near San Francisco with her husband and daughter. The Golem and the Djinni is her first novel. Klappentext Paperback edition of Wecker's fantastical novel set in 1899, featuring a Syrian djinni and a Polish golem in New York. With appeal to fans of Erin Morgenstern and Deborah Harkness. 'A continuous delight' "Boston Globe" Zusammenfassung ‘One of only two novels I've ever loved whose main characters are not human’ BARBARA KINGSOLVER For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. ‘By far my favourite book of of the year’ Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Helene Wecker, Wecker Helene
• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9780007480197
• ISBN: 978-0-00-748019-7
• No. of pages: 646
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 41 mm
• Series: Blue Door
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Myth & legend told as fiction, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales