The World to Come

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THE WORLD TO COME
"I can't even count the ways I admire The World to Come—everything about the book intoxicated me. It is quite simply an astonishing achievement, and Dara Horn is the realest of real things. I suspect it'll be a long while before I again read a book as true as The World to Come."
—STEVE STERN, author of The Angel of Forgetjulness
"Like a spider weaving her web—miraculously—Dara Horn weaves the poignant stories of lives past, lives present, and lives to come in this splendid tale of storytelling itself. A terrific yarn peopled with tender and very human characters, a page-turning mysteiy of the best sort: not who done it, but why."
-BINNIE KIRSHENBAUM, mthoToi An Almost Perfect Moment
"Some excellent books are smart and serious; others are sweet and joyous. Amazingly, Dara Horn's The World to Come is all of the above. Ms. Horn hits every note in the literary register from historical tragedy to mystical delirium, and plays them like a master."
-MELVIN... Tovább

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THE WORLD TO COME
"I can't even count the ways I admire The World to Come—everything about the book intoxicated me. It is quite simply an astonishing achievement, and Dara Horn is the realest of real things. I suspect it'll be a long while before I again read a book as true as The World to Come."
—STEVE STERN, author of The Angel of Forgetjulness
"Like a spider weaving her web—miraculously—Dara Horn weaves the poignant stories of lives past, lives present, and lives to come in this splendid tale of storytelling itself. A terrific yarn peopled with tender and very human characters, a page-turning mysteiy of the best sort: not who done it, but why."
-BINNIE KIRSHENBAUM, mthoToi An Almost Perfect Moment
"Some excellent books are smart and serious; others are sweet and joyous. Amazingly, Dara Horn's The World to Come is all of the above. Ms. Horn hits every note in the literary register from historical tragedy to mystical delirium, and plays them like a master."
-MELVIN JULES BUKIET , author of Strange Fire and A Faker s Dozen
"Spellbinding. . . . A compelling collage of history, mysteiy, theology, and scripture, The World to Come is a narrative tour de force crackling with conundrums and dark truths."
-ALLISON BLOCK , Booklist, starred review
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—Kirkus Reviews
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million-dollar painting by Marc Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief is Benjamin Ziskind, a lonely former child prodigy who writes questions for quiz shows and who is sure the painting used to hang on the wall of his parents' living room. As Ben tries to evade the police, he and his twin sister, Sara, seek out the truth of how the painting got to the museum, whether the "original" is actually a forgery, and whether Sara, an artist, can create a convincing forgeiy to take its place.
Eighty years prior, in the 1930s in Soviet Russia, Marc Chagall taught art to orphaned Jewish boys. There Chagall befriended the great Yiddish novelist known by the pseudonym "Der Nister," the Hidden One. And there, with the lives of these real artists, the stoiy of the painting begins, carrying with it not only a hidden fable by the Hidden One but also the stoiy of the Ziskind family—from Russia to New Jersey and Vietnam.
Prize-winning author Dara Horn interweaves mystery, romance, folklore, theology, history, and scripture into a spellbinding modern tale. She brings us on a breathtaking collision course of past, present, and future—revealing both the ordinariness and the beauty of "the world to come." Nestling stories within stories, this is a novel of remarkable clarity and deep inner meaning. Vissza