The World to Come

Dara Horn
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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.
Genres: FictionHistorical FictionJewishBook ClubArtMagical RealismJudaismHistoricalNovelsContemporary
336 Pages

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