The World to Come: A Novel

by Dara Horn

Genres: Jewish Fiction; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

"Nothing short of amazing." —Entertainment Weekly

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.

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Release date: October 17, 2006

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Print pages: 322