A retelling in novella form of the golem legend, set in Prague (where I happened to buy this English translation, many years ago). The story itself is a solid three stars, with a young man setting out to meddle in he knows not what and predictably coming to a sad and sticky end. What elevates it to four stars are the illustrations - they're simply amazing. Very simple, and single-coloured, done with a pencil it looks like (I'm not exactly arty, so don't take my word on that). But they are astonishing.