First time in Russian—a continuation of the “best debut in magical realism since ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ by Susanna Clarke” (BookPage). Hava is a golem made of clay in the Old World; she is no longer so afraid of New York crowds, but she still feels human desires and wants to help people.
Ahmad is a fire-spirit; for a thousand years he has been imprisoned in a copper lamp. Now he is imprisoned in a human form in a neighborhood of New York known as Little Syria.
Hava and Ahmad try to understand their relationship—and also change the lives of people fate throws their way. Thus, Sophia Winston, the heir to a multi-million fortune, after a few meetings with Ahmad, suffers from a mysterious illness and goes looking for treatment in the Middle East—where she meets a young genie who isn’t afraid of iron and was therefore expelled from her tribe…