The Gates of Midnight: A Novel of the Golem and the Jinni – A Thrilling Finale to the Acclaimed Historical Fantasy Trilogy

“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle.”― Entertainment Weekly The long-awaited final installment in the award-winning, bestselling Golem and the Jinni trilogy. At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Wecker’s Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to Syria with the copper flask that holds the captured wizard Yehudah Schaalman. There in the desert he buries the flask for all time… or so he thinks. In The Gates of Midnight, the riveting conclusion to the saga of the Golem and the Jinni, it’s 1930 and three decades have passed since Schaalman’s defeat. Chava the golem quietly tends to her house and garden in Brooklyn, hoping to create a refuge for other magical beings. Meanwhile, Ahmad has found employment as an architect in Chicago, helping to build its towering skyline above the prairie. But all is not well in the desert.