The World to Come - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Dara Horn is the author of five novels and was one of Granta 's Best Young American Novelists. She has taught Jewish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. She lives in New Jersey with her family. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "Nothing short of amazing."-Entertainment Weekly

Product details

• Authors: Dara Horn
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.2006
• EAN: 9780393329063
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32906-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature