Books written by Dara Horn
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the ...
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All Other Nights: A Novel
In this eagerly awaited third novel, award-winning author Dara Horn brings us page-turning storytelling at its best. Layered with meaning, All Other Nights reinvents the most American of subjects with originality and insight.
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A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel
Their stories intertwine in this spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.
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In the Image: A Novel
The novel begins when he crosses paths with his granddaughter's friend, Leora, and continues by moving forward through her life and backward through his, revealing the unexpected links between his family's past and her family's future.
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Eternal Life: A Novel
I am indebted to Michael Wexfor his comparison of Hillel's maxim “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor” with the Golden Rule, found in his playfully titled How to Be a Mentsh (& Not a Shmuck), and to Ilana Kurshan for her ...
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The World to Come: A Novel
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.
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con-tem-po-rary Jew-ish Life and Prac-tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, ...
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A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel
While consulting at an Egyptian library, software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi is kidnapped and her talent for preserving memories becomes her only means of escape as the power of her ingenious work is revealed, while jealous sister Judith takes ...
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Il mondo che verrà
Il mondo che verrà