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The Hidden Palace is Helene Wecker’s long-awaited second novel. Wecker’s debut,
The Golem and the Jinni, was published to no small acclaim in 2013. Those of us who remember that novel and its fantastic blending of myths from different traditions in the grounded setting of immigrant communities in late 19
th-century New York have been anticipating
The Hidden Palace for quite some time.
It lives up to its predecessor.
The Hidden Palace spans fifteen years, between 1900 and 1915. It continues to follow the golem Chava Levy and the jinni Ahmad through their lives in, respectively, the Jewish and Syrian immigrant communities in New York. But it also follows Sophia Winston, the young Park Avenue heiress whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with an affliction that leaves her cold and shivering even in high summer; and the family the daughter of Rabbi Altschul. Rabbi Altschul inherits the books of Rabbi Meyer, who had helped Chava, and eventually comes to construct a golem of
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What’s the weather like where you are? It’s high summer for me, with temperatures reaching a blistering 18C and sea-swimming looking good in waters with a surface temperature of 12C… which probably explains why I enjoyed reading a book set in the freezing heart of winter: reminded me a lot of cold water shock.
Winter Be My Shield is the start of an epic fantasy trilogy by Australian author Jo Spurrier, first published in 2012. I picked up this volume after Aliette de Bodard recommended me another work by the same writer (
A Curse of Ash and Embers) and hell, was this Spurrier’s debut? It’s pretty damn impressive, and I could wish I’d heard of it sooner.