The World to Come: A Novel
Author | : Dara Horn |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006-10-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393066876 |
ISBN-13 | : 0393066878 |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Download or read book The World to Come: A Novel written by Dara Horn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.