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The World to Come

by Dara Horn

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"Nothing short of amazing."—Entertainment Weekly

A million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum. The unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a thirty-year-old quiz-show writer. As Benjamin and his twin sister try to evade the police, they find themselves recalling their dead parents—the father who lost a leg in Vietnam, the mother who created children's books—and their stories about trust, loss, and betrayal.

What is true, what is fake, what does it mean? Eighty years before the theft, these questions haunted Chagall and the enigmatic Yiddish fabulist Der Nister ("The Hidden One"), teachers at a school for Jewish orphans. Both the painting and the questions will travel through time to shape the Ziskinds' futures.

With astonishing grace and simplicity, Dara Horn interweaves a real art heist, history, biography, theology, and Yiddish literature. Richly satisfying, utterly unique, her novel opens the door to "the world to come"—not life after death, but the world we create through our actions right now. Reading group guide included.

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With astonishing grace and simplicity, Horn interweaves a real art heist, history, biography, theology, and Yiddish literature. Richly satisfying, utterly unique, her novel opens the door to "the world to come"--not life after death, but the world people create through their actions right now. Reading group guide included.

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About the Author

Dara Horn is the author of In the Image, which won the National Jewish Book Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. She lives in New York City.
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Sabena, January 1, 2010 (view all comments by Sabena)
The World to Come is a story-sculpture of life seen through the eyes of a Jewish orphan-survivor of a 1920s Russian pogrom and a man in post-Vietnam War America in pursuit of his family's history, a fluid weaving of past and present brought together by the art and humanity of Marc Chagall. The characters are as vivid and as unmoored as the people who populate Chagall's paintings. Rich in quietly, thoroughly observed detail, imbued with the music of Yiddish, it is a bouquet of spiritual quandaries planted in a crime mystery.
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Sabena, January 1, 2010 (view all comments by Sabena)
The World to Come is a story-sculpture of life seen through the eyes of a Jewish orphan-survivor of a 1920s Russian pogrom and a man in post-Vietnam War America in pursuit of his family's history, a fluid weaving of past and present brought together by the art and humanity of Marc Chagall. The characters are as vivid and as unmoored as the people who populate Chagall's paintings. Rich in quietly, thoroughly observed detail, imbued with the music of Yiddish, it is a bouquet of spiritual quandaries planted in a crime mystery.
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Lior7, May 25, 2007 (view all comments by Lior7)
This book was a great read. Horn's writing is so different from anyone else's. She covers many historical and religious type questions. The question of where do we come from, where are we going, what is the purpose of our existance, they are all asked and answered in a different way that I was both expecting and what i belive. An amazing book that I plan on reading and referring to for the rest of my life.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780393329063
Author:
Horn, Dara
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
Literary
Publication Date:
October 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
314
Dimensions:
8 x 6 in
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