Bøger af Dara Horn

A family sits at the table, ready to start their Passover seder. There's Grandpa, who's attempting to lead; anxious dad and pregnant mom; Cool Cousin and Uncool Cousin; 98-year-old great-grandma who survived the Warsaw Ghetto; our narrator, Wise Child, and his siblings-one of whom has lost the Afikomen. Without it, this seder can never end. Accompanied by a wisecracking, irreverent little goat who shows up at the front door, Wise Child takes a journey through time and all the Passovers past to retrieve the Afikomen, end the seder, and understand his family, his faith, and his history along the way.Complemented by Theo Ellsworth's fantastical artwork, Dara Horn's first graphic novel is a delightfully bizarre exploration of the meaning of Passover, layered with joy, humor, and magic.

De oude Joodse vluchteling Bill Landsmann slijt zijn dagen met het verzamelen van dia’s vol beelden uit het Oude Testament. Hoewel hij in een buitenwijk van New Jersey woont, reist hij voor zijn collectie de hele wereld af. Wanneer zijn leven dat van Leora kruist, de vriendin van zijn overleden kleindochter, lijken hun paden in elkaar te reflecteren; terug in de tijd naar het verleden van Bills familie en vooruit richting Leora’s toekomst. Terwijl het hedendaagse New York wordt gespiegeld in dat van een eeuw geleden, onthullen verbazingwekkende dwarsverbanden zich tegen een achtergrond van Joodse tradities, mystiek en literatuur. Evenbeeld is het waanzinnige literaire debuut van de bekroonde Joodse schrijfster Dara Horn. Dara Horn is de bekroonde schrijfster van romans als ´Evenbeeld´ (2002) en ´De wereld die op je wacht´ (2006). Haar boeken zijn vertaald in elf talen en staan onder meer in de New York Times’ lijst voor Notable Books, de Booklist's 25 Best Books of the Decade en de San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of the Year. Ze behaalde twee keer de National Jewish Book Award, evenals de Edward Lewis Wallant Award, de Harold U Ribalow Award en de Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. Daarnaast was ze finaliste van de Wingate Prize, de Simpson Family Literary Prize en de Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.In de academische wereld is Horn een bekende naam. Ze studeerde Jiddisch en Hebreeuws aan de universiteit van Harvard en behaalde daar haar doctoraat in vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap. Ze heeft lesgegeven aan het Sarah Lawrence College en de Yeshiva University en maakte een terugkeer naar Harvard in de rol van Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies. Horn woont in New Jersey met haar man en vier kinderen.

How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, it is a question his commanders have already answered for him-on Passover, 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle in New Orleans, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln. After this harrowing mission, Jacob is recruited to pursue another enemy agent, the daughter of a Virginia family friend. But this time, his assignment isn't to murder the spy, but to marry her. Their marriage, with its riveting and horrifying consequences, reveals the deep divisions that still haunt American life today.Based on real personalities such as Judah Benjamin, the Confederacy's Jewish secretary of state and spymaster, and on historical facts and events ranging from an African American spy network to the dramatic self-destruction of the city of Richmond, All Other Nights is a gripping and suspenseful story of men and women driven to the extreme limits of loyalty and betrayal. It is also a brilliant parable of the rift in America that lingers a century and a half later: between those who value family and tradition first, and those dedicated, at any cost, to social and racial justice for all.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.

What would it really mean to live forever?

Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles-widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son-are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she's tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.But as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren-consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering-develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.Gripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, Eternal Life celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.

The incomparable Dara Horn returns with a spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.

"Nothing short of amazing."-Entertainment Weekly

I believe that when people die, they go to the same place as all the people who haven t yet been born. That s why it s called the world to come, because that s where they make the new souls for the future. And the reward when good people die is that they get to help make the people in their families who haven t been born yet. Extraordinary stories begin with an extraordinary moment like when lonely divorcee Benjamin Ziskind steals a million-dollar painting during a singles cocktail event at a New York museum. Convinced that the painting used to hang on the wall of his family living room before his parents died, he seizes his chance in that split second to hold on to the family past in an uncertain present. So begins an awe-inspiring journey for Ben and his twin sister Sara, one that not only gives them reason to see both the painting and their parents in new and startling ways, but which also takes them to the very boundaries of life itself in this world, and the world to come...

A young woman's coming of age, a romantic love story, and a spiritual journey-each infused with the lessons of history.