| SourceĮxquisite Captive (Dark Caravan Cycle, #1)īy: Heather Demetrios | 480 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, ya, romance, magic | Search 'Exquisite Captive'įorced to obey her master. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.ġ92523 books suggested | I don't feel so good.

Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.Īhmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free.Īhmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. He frees the Ifrits from their bottles, and the treasures are divided among the Faithful.The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)īy: Helene Wecker | 486 pages | Published: 2013 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, fiction, magical-realism, historical | Search ' The Golem and the Jinni 'Ĭhava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic, created to be the wife of a man who dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. They arrive in Damascus and tell the Caliph everything that has occurred. They meet a cave where some black men are staying, and are given twelve brass bottles. They take some of the treasure not belonging to Tadmurah and leave. Against Musa's orders, Talib greedily tries to take some of her treasures. In a palace they find the enbalmed body of Tadmurah, an Amalekite princess. Investigating, they find the corpses of the city's inhabitants. Musa explores along the wall and finally opens the gate. By reciting from Allah's Book, he is able to avoid falling under the spell of the ten maidens in the city, who were causing men to throw themselves to their deaths. This continues with each climber until Emir Musa goes up.

They build a ladder to get over the wall, but the first man seems to go mad and throws himself down into the city to his death. They find the city walls, but also marble tablets covered in warnings. Dahish worked against Solomon but was captured by Al-Dimiryat, the king of the Jann, and imprisoned and chained in the pillar by Solomon.ĭahish tells the group that they can find more Ifrits in brass bottles in the sea of Al-Karkar, and that the City of Brass is nearby. Later, they encounter a black stone pillar, in which an Ifrit named Dahish, son of Al-A’amash, is imprisoned. The travelers do so, and the horseman turns to point the way to the City of Brass. On the horseman's lance is an inscription inviting travelers to rub the horseman's hand. On a hill, they find a horseman made of brass. They form a group travelling through the desert to try to find the City of Brass. Each time one was opened, a Jinn emerged, shouted to the heavens for forgiveness, and vanished, as they had been imprisoned in their bottles by Solomon and are still seeking forgiveness, not knowing he is dead.Īt the Caliph's request, Talib has his brother write to Musa bin Nusayr, govenor of Morocco. One man, Talib bin Sahl, tells the Caliph about how his father once travelled to an unknown land, where fishermen regularly caught copper bottles with the seal of Solomon. Solomon imprisoned and commanded Jinns and Marids with his ring. A Caliph, Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, of Damascus, is speaking with his Sultans, Kings and Grandees and their conversation turn to Solomon, who was lord over all kinds of beings.

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