The world to come
Ratings6
Average rating3.8
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Ratings6
Average rating3.8
Having stolen a million-dollar Marc Chagall masterpiece, thirty-year-old quiz-show writer Benjamin Ziskind and his twin sister work to evade the police and evaluate the eighty-year-old link between their family and the famous painting.
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Wow, Dara Horn's writing is phenomenal. It's not so much her style as it is her themes and thoughtfulness. She weaves Yiddish, as well as magical realism, into her plots with great craftiness. This particular book follows the complicated histories of friends, partners, families, and lovers in Vietnam, the former USSR, and modern-day U.S. I would recommend this book to anyone who's interested in family epics, books by John Steinbeck (this reminded me a lot of East of Eden), and novels loosely constructed on Judaism.
I was super on board with the story but the last part really threw me off, way too cheesy for my sensitivity. Cool concept though.
