The World to Come
Dara Horn
(Author)
Description
A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history--from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
October 17, 2006
Pages
314
Dimensions
5.57 X 8.33 X 0.85 inches | 0.68 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393329063
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About the Author
Dara Horn is the author of the novels In the Image and The World to Come.
Reviews
Brilliantly imagined.--Merle Rubin
This book is the real thing.--Julia Livshin
A deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present--and how we haunt the future.--Lev Grossman
Deeply sympathetic characters, an encyclopedic grasp of 20th-century history and a spiritual sense that sees through the conventional barriers between this life and the one to come--or the one before.--Ron Charles
Symphonic and piercingly beautiful...the novel suspends us between emotions, never allowing any to become predominant, and we hang there in that indeterminate space, perfectly happy, hoping that the book will never end.--Bethany Scneider
Horn's deft touch is often wryly funny--but never maliciously so...An accomplished work that beautifully explains how families--in all their maddening, smothering, supportive glory--create us.--Natalie Danford
This book is the real thing.--Julia Livshin
A deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present--and how we haunt the future.--Lev Grossman
Deeply sympathetic characters, an encyclopedic grasp of 20th-century history and a spiritual sense that sees through the conventional barriers between this life and the one to come--or the one before.--Ron Charles
Symphonic and piercingly beautiful...the novel suspends us between emotions, never allowing any to become predominant, and we hang there in that indeterminate space, perfectly happy, hoping that the book will never end.--Bethany Scneider
Horn's deft touch is often wryly funny--but never maliciously so...An accomplished work that beautifully explains how families--in all their maddening, smothering, supportive glory--create us.--Natalie Danford
