A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel

Author(s): Dara Horn

Fiction

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented a programme 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 kidnappe - leaving Judith free to usurp her sister's life, including her husband and daughter, while Josie's talent for preserving memories becomes her only hope of escape. A century earlier, Solomon Schechter, a Cambridge professor, hunts for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. What he finds will reveal the power and danger of the world Josie's work brings into being: a world where nothing is ever forgotten. A Guide for the Perplexed is a spellbinding tale sure to bring a vast new readership to the acclaimed work of Dara Horn.


Product Information

Dara Horn is one of Granta's "Best Young American Novelists". Author website: www.darahorn.com

General Fields

  • : 9780393348880
  • : WW Norton & Co
  • : WW Norton & Co
  • : 0.281
  • : May 2014
  • : 211mm X 140mm X 65mm
  • : United States
  • : May 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Dara Horn
  • : Paperback
  • : 813.6
  • : 368