explorer / books · 2014
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker’s only award entry in this dataset.
Published 2013 by Harper · 486 pages
Nebula · 2014
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This book is recorded on the Nebula ballot only. Each row shows the full Best Novel ballot for that award and ceremony year. Winners appear first.
★ Winner
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Ann Leckie
Finalist
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Finalist
The Red
Linda Nagata
Finalist
Fire with Fire
Charles E. Gannon
Finalist
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
Finalist · this book
The Golem and the Jinni
Helene Wecker
Finalist
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
Finalist
Hild
Nicola Griffith
Synopsis
In 1899 New York, a golem created to be a rabbi’s wife emerges from her master’s death on an immigrant ship, and a jinni is accidentally freed from a copper flask in a Little Syria tinsmith’s shop. Two mythological beings from different traditions navigate the immigrant experience while hiding their true natures — and discover an unexpected connection.
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