By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books.Spanning the tumultuous years from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of World War I, The Hidden Palace follows these lives and others as they collide and interleave. 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. There she meets Dima, a tempestuous female jinni who?s been banished from her tribe. 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. Brought together under calamitous circumstances, their lives are now entwined?but they?re not yet certain of what they mean to each other.īoth Chava and Ahmad have changed the lives of the people around them. Fearing they?ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and try to pass as human?just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. Ahmad is a jinni, a restless creature of fire, once free to roam the desert but now imprisoned in the shape of a man. In this enthralling historical 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 New York Times bestseller The Golemand the Jinni?Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront unexpected new challenges in a rapidly changing human world.Ĭhava 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. The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker € 35.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days.

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