A Guide for the Perplexed
Dara Horn
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides' famous work to anchor her--leaving her jealous sister Judith free to take over her life. A century earlier, Cambridge professor Solomon Schechter arrives in Egypt, hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Their stories intertwine in this spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.
Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
April 07, 2014
Pages
342
Dimensions
5.52 X 8.36 X 0.88 inches | 0.63 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393348880
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About the Author
Dara Horn is the author of the novels In the Image and The World to Come.
Reviews
Readers will be taken in by this literary thriller's fast-paced plot and complicated but well-imaged characters. A sure bet.
A Guide for the Perplexed is a richly layered book that leaves a reader...grateful and impressed.
Horn moves seamlessly back and forth in time.
A work marked by brilliant conceits and clever plotting.
Horn is embracing her own, livelier brand of Jewish history, embodied in the joys of discovering-and creating-the past anew.
Wondrous...a richly layered novel.... Horn has magically summoned the wisdom of the ages to address a most contemporary dilemma...riveting and suspenseful.... A novelist at the height of her powers.--Andrew Ferman
A Guide for the Perplexed is a richly layered book that leaves a reader...grateful and impressed.
Horn moves seamlessly back and forth in time.
A work marked by brilliant conceits and clever plotting.
Horn is embracing her own, livelier brand of Jewish history, embodied in the joys of discovering-and creating-the past anew.
Wondrous...a richly layered novel.... Horn has magically summoned the wisdom of the ages to address a most contemporary dilemma...riveting and suspenseful.... A novelist at the height of her powers.--Andrew Ferman
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