A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel - Brossura

Horn, Dara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393348881 ISBN 13: 9780393348880

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2014

Riassunto

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 Josie are haunted by the work of the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides, a doctor and rationalist who sought to reconcile faith and science, destiny and free will. But what Schechter finds, as he tracks down the remnants of a thousand-year-old community’s once-vibrant life, will reveal the power and perils of what Josie’s ingenious work brings into being: a world where nothing is ever forgotten.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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Recensione:

"...an astonishing storyteller..." --Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times

"A work marked by brilliant conceits and clever plotting." --Kirkus Reviews

L'autore:

Dara Horn, the author of the novels All Other Nights, The World to Come, and In the Image, is one of Granta s "Best Young American Novelists" and the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393348881
• ISBN 13: 9780393348880
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 342