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The World to Come

by Dara Horn · 2006

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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.

Genre
historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thismagical realismmagical realismMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of this
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JewishJewishMore like thisLess of thisartartMore like thisLess of thisreligionreligionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisEnglischEnglischMore like thisLess of thisJudenJudenMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of thisRussiaRussiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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