The World to Come: A Novel

by Dara Horn

Overview

"Nothing short of amazing." —Entertainment WeeklyA 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393329063
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/2006
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dara Horn is a two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and one of Granta’s Best American Novelists. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.

Editorial Reviews

This book is the real thing.

Julia Livshin - Chicago Tribune

Deeply sympathetic characters, an encyclopedic grasp of 20th-century history and a spiritual sense that sees through the conventional barriers between this life and the one to come—or the one before.

Ron Charles - Washington Post

Horn’s deft touch is often wryly funny—but never maliciously so…An accomplished work that beautifully explains how families—in all their maddening, smothering, supportive glory—create us.

Natalie Danford - Los Angeles Times Book Review

Symphonic and piercingly beautiful…the novel suspends us between emotions, never allowing any to become predominant, and we hang there in that indeterminate space, perfectly happy, hoping that the book will never end.

Bethany Scneider - Newsday

Brilliantly imagined.

Merle Rubin - Wall Street Journal

A deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present—and how we haunt the future.

Lev Grossman - Time

A deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present—and how we haunt the future.

Time

Horn’s deft touch is often wryly funny—but never maliciously so. . . . An accomplished work that beautifully explains how families—in all their maddening, smothering, supportive glory—create us.

Los Angeles Times Book Review - Natalie Danford

Deeply sympathetic characters, an encyclopedic grasp of 20th-century history and a spiritual sense that sees through the conventional barriers between this life and the one to come—or the one before.

Washington Post - Ron Charles

Brilliantly imagined.

Wall Street Journal - Merle Rubin

Symphonic and piercingly beautiful . . . the novel suspends us between emotions, never allowing any to become predominant, and we hang there in that indeterminate space, perfectly happy, hoping that the book will never end.

Newsday - Bethany Scneider

A deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present—and how we haunt the future.

Time Magazine

Horn’s deft touch is often wryly funny—but never maliciously so. . . . An accomplished work that beautifully explains how families—in all their maddening, smothering, supportive glory—create us.— Natalie Danford

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Deeply sympathetic characters, an encyclopedic grasp of 20th-century history and a spiritual sense that sees through the conventional barriers between this life and the one to come—or the one before.— Ron Charles

Washington Post

Brilliantly imagined.— Merle Rubin

Wall Street Journal

Symphonic and piercingly beautiful . . . the novel suspends us between emotions, never allowing any to become predominant, and we hang there in that indeterminate space, perfectly happy, hoping that the book will never end.— Bethany Scneider

Newsday