Helene Wecker (Sheldon Wecker)
Eight years after they first bewitched us, Ahmad the jinni and Chava the golem are finally back.
To the delight of fans of 2013’s bestselling historical fantasy “The Golem and The Jinni,” author Helene Wecker has penned a sequel titled, “The Hidden Palace.” Picking up where the first installment left off at the waning of 19th century, the new page turner spans the first 15 years of the 20th century. Although the Jewish Golem and Arabian Jinni themselves never age, time nonetheless ticks on and they must adapt to the quickly modernizing and tumultuous age.
In a recent conversation with The Times of Israel from her home in northern California, Wecker acknowledged her fans’ long wait for the sequel.
Paul Di Filippo Reviews The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
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