![]() ![]() The eternal questions are not answered or worse, they are answered in contradictory ways. They’re stuck in their natures, and in the final analysis, they are incapable of meaningful change (and the Jinni is just not a very pleasant person). It’s paper-thin and shallow and pompous and ultimately just not very interesting. This is exactly the kind of book I’ve been looking for! What happened? ![]() ![]() faith as bondage, what is the nature of happiness. The story follows the improbably friendship of a Golem (a being of clay animated by Kabbalistic magic) and a Jinni (sadly, not Robin Williams) who find themselves as immigrants in the New York of “The Age of Immigration”–a wonderful set-up, especially as Wecker intends their interaction to raise some of the eternal questions–nature vs. Everything about it seems perfect–the mythologic set-up, the serious moral and philosophical issues, the historical setting, the “literary-fantasy” style.Įxcept it’s just not a very good book. ![]()
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