Golem's Everywhere

The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud
Originally published in hardcover in 2004 - Miramax

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This book was the third in a series of "golem" coincidences at a particular point in my life a couple years ago - don't know what to make of it. One summer I picked up a copy of Meyrink's The Golem at a used book sale. Then that fall I listened to Michael Chabon talk to a spellbound audience about the Golem of Prague (and I read the Adventures of Kavalier and Clay). And then I finished this book, which also peripherally uses the Golem of Prague in the story. What does this all mean? Golem's everywhere.


Anyway, this particular book is the second in an absolutely brilliant trilogy. The main characters employ such subtle wit and sarcasm ... amazing.


Amazon description - The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni, Bartimaeus, must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem's power. In the ensuing chaos, readers will chase a dancing skeleton across London's skyline, encounter the horror of the dreaded Night Police, witness a daring kidnapping, and enter the Machiavellian world of the magician's government. Eventually, Nathaniel and Bartimaeus have to go head to head with the fearsome golem before the surprise identity of his master is finally revealed.