World to Come A Novel

Name: World to Come A Novel
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ISBN: 9780393329063

ISBN-10: 0393329062

ISBN-13: 9780393329063

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Authors: 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 parentsthe father who lost a leg in Vietnam, the mother who created children's booksand 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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Dara Horn, the author of the novels All Other Nights, The World to Come, and In the Image, is one of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists" and the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.