The Secret Palace. A Novel about the Golem and the Djinn

For the first time in Russian — the continuation of «the best debut in the genre of magical realism since „Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell“ by Susanna Clarke» (BookPage). Hava — a golem, created from clay in the Old World; she is no longer so afraid of the New York crowds, but still feels human desires and yearns to help people. Djinn Ahmad — a being of fiery nature; imprisoned in a copper lamp for a thousand years, now he is trapped in a human form in a part of New York known as Little Syria. Hava and Ahmad are trying to navigate their relationship — while also changing the lives of the people fate brings them to. Thus, the heiress of a multimillion-dollar fortune, Sofia Winston, after brief encounters with Ahmad suffering from a mysterious illness, sets off in search of a cure in the Middle East — and meets a young jinniya there, who is not afraid of iron and has therefore been exiled from her tribe...