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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.
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The World to Come, Dara Horn
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- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- The World to Come
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dara Horn
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 401
- ISBN10
- 014103131X
- ISBN13
- 9780141031316
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Love, Family, USA, Death, Faith, Jews, New York, Mourning, Magical Realism, Jewish Literature, Genealogy
- Original title
- The world to come
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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.