Series
Chava and Ahmad
Helene Wecker · 3 novels · 2013–2026
Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni brings together two mythical beings adrift in 1899 New York: Chava, a golem shaped from clay by a rabbi versed in Kabbalistic magic, and Ahmad, a jinni born of fire in ancient Syria. Freed into a city of immigrant communities, the two form an unlikely bond while hiding their true natures from the humans around them. Wecker continues their story in the 2021 sequel The Hidden Palace.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
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- 2010s1
- 2020s2
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Mood
Grim and calm: 33% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
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- The Golem and the Jinnidarkest · calmest
- The Gates of Midnightbrightest · most intense