A Guide for the Perplexed
A Novel
Published on 9. September 2013
353 pages
978-0-393-24140-2 (ISBN)
Description
"[An] intense, multilayered story." -Jami Attenberg, New York Times Book Review
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
1,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-393-24140-2 (9780393241402)
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07/2014
WW Norton & Co
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Person
Dara Horn is the author of five novels and was one of
Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She has taught Jewish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
