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by Dara Horn

  • Narrated by: William Dufris
  • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
  • Release date: 05-18-06
  • Language: English

An intoxicating combination of mystery, spirituality, redemption, piety, and passion, The World to Come is Dara Horn’s follow-up to her breakout, critically-acclaimed debut novel In the Image. Using a real-life art heist as her starting point, Horn traces the life and times of several characters, including Russian-born artist Marc Chagall and the New Jersey-based Ziskind family.

Benjamin Ziskind, a former child prodigy, now spends his days writing questions for a television trivia show. After Ben’s twin sister Sara forces him to attend a singles cocktail party at a Jewish museum, Ben spots Over Vitebsk, a Chagall sketch that once hung in the twins’ childhood home. Convinced the painting was stolen from his family, Ben steals the work of art and enlists Sara to create a forgery to replace it. While trying to evade the police, Ben attempts to find the truth of how the painting got to the museum.

From a Jewish orphanage in 1920s Soviet Russia where Marc Chagall taught art to orphaned Jewish boys, to a junior high school in Newark, New Jersey, with a stop in the jungles of Da Nang, Vietnam, Horn weaves a story of mystery, romance, folklore, history, and theology into a spellbinding modern tale. 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.

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Author

Dara Horn

Language

English

Length

13 hrs and 28 mins

Narrated by

William Dufris

Release date

05-18-06

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