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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 historyfrom an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall tau

• Title : The World to Come: A Novel
• Author : Dara Horn
• Rating : 4.94 (141 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-8-27
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 336 Pages
• Asin : 0393329062
• Language : English

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 historyfrom an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.. "Nothing short of amazing."Entertainment Weekly A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. As we learn near the end of the beautiful tale, "The real wo