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- ISBN
- 9780393348880
- ISBN-13
- 9780393348880
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393348881
ISBN-13
9780393348880
eBay Product ID (ePID)
170174442
Product Key Features
Book Title
Guide for the Perplexed : a Novel
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Thrillers / Suspense, Crime, Literary, Jewish
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
0.8 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
[A Guide for the Perplexed] is so beautiful, so mystical, so exciting... I really urge you to read Dara Horn., It's not every day you come across a genuinely page-turning kidnapping story that is also replete with historical, psychological, and interpretive insights into Maimonides, envy, and motherhood, not to mention replicating the narrative structure and central themes of the biblical story of Joseph. A Guide for the Perplexed is Dara Horn's most ambitious, audacious, edifying, and entertaining novel yet., Readers will be taken in by this literary thriller's fast-paced plot and complicated but well-imaged characters. A sure bet., Horn is embracing her own, livelier brand of Jewish history, embodied in the joys of discovering--and creating--the past anew., Intricate and suspenseful, A Guide for the Perplexed is both learned and heartfelt, an exploration of human memory, its uses and misuses, that spans centuries in a twisty braid full of jaw dropping revelations and breathtaking reversals. An elegant and brainy page-turner from a master storyteller., Riveting...This is extraordinary material, emotionally resonant and intellectually suggestive, and Horn's portraits of the sisters are wonderfully ambiguous...[Horn] interweaves historical and contemporary tales to create intriguing echoes and layers of metaphor...Horn's searing family drama easily encompasses whole worlds of political, philosophical and moral conflicts...Beautifully written and overwhelmingly sad., Horn is embracing her own, livelier brand of Jewish history, embodied in the joys of discovering-and creating-the past anew., [Within A Guide for the Perplexed] beats the living heart of a very human drama, one that will have readers both caught up in the suspense and moved by the tragic dimensions of the unresolved dilemma at the core of the story., Computer science and medieval philosophy mesh in Dara Horn's accomplished novel about digital dangers and the nature of memory., Wondrous...a richly layered novel.... Horn has magically summoned the wisdom of the ages to address a most contemporary dilemma...riveting and suspenseful.... A novelist at the height of her powers.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos, Josie is abducted--leaving Judith free to take over Josie's life at home, including her husband and daughter, while Josie's talent for preserving memories becomes a surprising test of her empathy and her only means of escape. A century earlier, another traveler arrives in Egypt: Solomon Schechter, a Cambridge professor hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Both he and Josie are haunted by the work of the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides, a doctor and rationalist who sought to reconcile faith and science, destiny and free will. But what Schechter finds, as he tracks down the remnants of a thousand-year-old community's once-vibrant life, will reveal the power and perils of what Josie's ingenious work brings into being: a world where nothing is ever forgotten. An engrossing adventure that intertwines stories from Genesis, medieval philosophy, and the digital frontier, A Guide for the Perplexed is a novel of profound inner meaning and astonishing imagination., Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides' famous work to anchor her--leaving her jealous sister Judith free to take over her life. A century earlier, Cambridge professor Solomon Schechter arrives in Egypt, hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Their stories intertwine in this spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul., Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides' famous work to anchor her-leaving her jealous sister Judith free to take over her life. A century earlier, Cambridge professor Solomon Schechter arrives in Egypt, hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Their stories intertwine in this spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.
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