Book description
"Wecker is a marvelous storyteller."-USA Today
"An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker's storytelling skills dazzle."- Entertainment Weekly
The long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy.
At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Wecker's Golem…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Gates of Midnight as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Gates of Midnight has all the magic and sense of a brush with the ineffable that the first two books in the trilogy, The Golem and the Jinni and The Hidden Palace, gave us. Chava, a woman made of clay, and Ahmad, a man made of fire, find their way through an ancient curse that has crossed cultures and generations while they struggle to live as humans. The novel brilliantly combines a detailed immersion into early twentieth century New York with a hidden layer of the fantastic and mythical lying just under the surface.
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