Helene Wecker
Auteur van The Golem and the Jinni
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Helene Wecker received a BA in English from Carleton College and an MFA from Columbia University. Her first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was published in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- 20th Century
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- female
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- USA
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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Chicagoland
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
New York, New York, USA
Bay Area, California, USA - Opleiding
- Columbia University (MFA)
Carleton College (BA) - Beroepen
- novelist
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The golem and the jinni door Helene Wecker
I wanted to give this four stars because it was really well written. However, I could not because it was a bit too angsty for my taste.
A very unique book. I loved the fairy/folk tale feel of the book and learned much about these tales in Jewish and Middle Eastern culture. Yet the book was so much more than a magical story; it was about finding your place in this world and the importance of free will. I loved Chava and her journey to find her humanity.
I loved this book. Wecker is a master of nuance and the telling detail.
I completely fell in love with the flawed, heart-achingly complex characters of Chava and Ahmed. Wecker's beautiful writing made all the characters deliciously fascinating, and the setting was so vivid, every time I set the book down, I felt disoriented. I honestly feel like I have been living in the old Jewish and Syrian neighborhoods of turn of the century New York.
I hated for it to end, but it did. And it ended in a way that, unlike so many recent books, did not fizzle or disappoint. Five stars.
… (meer)
I completely fell in love with the flawed, heart-achingly complex characters of Chava and Ahmed. Wecker's beautiful writing made all the characters deliciously fascinating, and the setting was so vivid, every time I set the book down, I felt disoriented. I honestly feel like I have been living in the old Jewish and Syrian neighborhoods of turn of the century New York.
I hated for it to end, but it did. And it ended in a way that, unlike so many recent books, did not fizzle or disappoint. Five stars.
… (meer)
The Golem and the Jinni goes on and on and on. A lot of the story could have been edited out and still have had a long story. Three stars were given to this book because it left the reader wanting it to end already.
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