The Golem and the Jinni

It is hard to be an outsider among people, even harder to be alien. How to settle in a strange country, how to overcome misunderstanding, loneliness, and fear, how to find your way, start a new life?.. In 1899, two mythical creatures find themselves in New York. A golem, created from clay in a female form, is meant to faithfully serve its master but loses him on the way to America, and sudden freedom turns into a deep torment. A jinni, released accidentally by a tinsmith from the New York neighborhood of Little Syria after a thousand years of imprisonment, is a powerful desert spirit who has completely forgotten the past that preceded his captivity, powerless in a human body, and dreams of breaking free from these shackles. The revived characters of ancient legends are very lonely, but one night in the midst of an empty city, their paths will cross... «The Golem and the Jinni» serves as a «metaphorical autobiography» — as the author admits, the novel is based on her personal story, inspired by the similarities between two families belonging to different cultural traditions. In 2014, the book was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Best Novel.