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The World to Come: A Novel por Dara Horn
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The World to Come: A Novel

por Dara Horn

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This book chronicled a story of the members of the Ziskind family, told from several points of view, jumping back and forth in time. It started out promising, with a main plot involving twins Ben and Sara and a work of art that once belonged to their family. When it wandered far from this story, which it did, I started to lose interest. The ending was highly anti-climactic, when the most developed protaganists' story is dropped entirely, and an extended story about an as-yet-undeveloped character covers several pages. I can't describe it without spoiling it, so suffice it to say there are some very creative ideas in this section, but it bears little relation to the story that preceded it, except for family relationships. All in all, if my book club hadn't selected this book, I likely would not have finished it. ( )
1 vote ChickLitFan | Nov 27, 2009 |
Het boek begint met de diefstal van een schilderij van Chagall. Maar is het wel diefstal als het schilderij ooit van je familie gestolen is? Een pareltje. ( )
  boeklover | Nov 13, 2009 |
"The Wold to Come" is about a recently divorced man named Ben Zizkind who write questions for a quiz show. At the prompting of his twin sister, he goes to a singles party at a Jewish museum and low and behold he sees a painting that used to hang in his parents' home...a small Chagall. After everyone leaves to go to another part of the museum for the musical entertainment, he stays behind (he can't hear music as according to Jewish law he is forbidden within the year following a parent's death and his mom recently died). Something comes over him and he steals the painting. Now you might think that alarms go off and the video camera would capture the theft. Wrong...security is focused on preventing terrorists from harming the people inside. So needless to say Ben gets away with the theft until the very attractive museum director puts 2 and 2 together. The rest of the book tells the story of Ben's ancestry and how the painting came into the family (it truly is a Chagall). I have a penchant for novels that jump around in time and are also narrated from different perspectives. There is also a bit of history, art, poetry, short stories, and lots of talk about what happens after death. According to Rosalie (Ben's mom who is a children's writer...albeit a very dark children's writer if you ask me), she doesn't believe in reincarnation. What she believes is that there is a world to come where people who have passed teach and guide the future generation when they are in the womb. Definitely an enjoyable read...one that could be enjoyed by men. ( )
  knithappened | Nov 10, 2009 |
NBD|Biblion recensie:

Benjamin Ziskind herkent op een tentoonstelling een klein schilderij van Marc Chagall dat, vroeger thuis, altijd boven de piano heeft gehangen. Nog wat verward na de dood van zijn moeder is hij ervan overtuigd dat het schilderij zijn familie toebehoort. Hij neemt het schilderij die avond op een onbewaakt moment mee naar huis. Dan volgen we de tragische geschiedenis van het vroegere Rusland, Marc Chagall en de jiddische schrijver Der Nister tot op het moment dat de moeder van Ben het schilderij in handen heeft gekregen. Ondertussen bedenkt Ben samen met zijn zwangere tweelingzus Sara een plan om het schilderij terug te geven aan het museum. Een boek met veel prachtige joodse verhalen en geschiedvertellingen die uiteindelijk allemaal met elkaar verweven blijken te zijn. Een thriller zoals op het omslag vermeld staat, is niet de juiste benaming voor dit boek, maar een uniek literair werk is het zeker. De auteur ontving voor haar debuut 'Evenbeeld' in 2003 de National Jewish Book Award. Kleine druk.

(Biblion recensie, A. Bogerman) ( )
  verbaljam | Jul 14, 2009 |
Top American novelist. Granta. ( )
  synthpaintann | Oct 26, 2008 |
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0393329062, Paperback)

Following in the footsteps of her breakout debut In the Image, Dara Horn's second novel, The World to Come, is an intoxicating combination of mystery, spirituality, redemption, piety, and passion. Using a real-life art heist as her starting point, Horn traces the life and times of several characters, including Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, the New Jersey-based Ziskind family, and the "already-weres" and "not-yets" who roam an eternal world that exists outside the boundaries of life on earth.

At the center of the story is Benjamin Ziskind, a former child prodigy who now spends his days writing questions for a television trivia show. After Ben's twin sister Sara forces him to attend a singles cocktail party at a Jewish museum, Ben spots Over Vitebsk, a Chagall sketch that once hung in the twins' childhood home. Convinced the painting was wrongfully taken from his family, Ben steals the work of art and enlists his twin to create a forgery to replace the stolen Chagall. What follows is a series of interwoven stories that trace the life and times of the famous painting, and the fate of those who come into contact with it.

From a Jewish orphanage in 1920s Soviet Russia to a junior high school in Newark, New Jersey, with a stop in the jungles of Da Nang, Vietnam, Horn takes readers on an amazing journey through the sacred and the profane elements of the human condition. It is this expertly rendered juxtaposition of the spiritual with the secular that makes The World to Come so profound, and so compelling to readers. As we learn near the end of the beautiful tale, "The real world to come is down below--the world, in the future, as you create it." --Gisele Toueg

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