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Guide for the Perplexed
Dara Horn
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Description for Guide for the Perplexed
Hardback. The incomparable Dara Horn returns with a spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 668.
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.
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 ... Read more
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.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393064896
SKU
V9780393064896
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About Dara Horn
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.
Reviews for Guide for the Perplexed
"Readers will be taken in by this literary thriller’s fast-paced plot and complicated but well-imaged characters. A sure bet."
Library Journal "[An] intense, multilayered story… Horn's writing comes from a place of deep knowledge…"
Jami Attenberg - New York Times Book Review "It’s not every day you come across a genuinely page-turning kidnapping story that is also replete ... Read more
Library Journal "[An] intense, multilayered story… Horn's writing comes from a place of deep knowledge…"
Jami Attenberg - New York Times Book Review "It’s not every day you come across a genuinely page-turning kidnapping story that is also replete ... Read more