A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel

A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel

by Dara Horn
A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel

A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel

by Dara Horn

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Overview

"[An] intense, multilayered story." —Jami Attenberg, New York Times Book Review

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt’s postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides’ famous work to anchor her—leaving her jealous sister Judith free to take over her life. A century earlier, Cambridge professor Solomon Schechter arrives in Egypt, hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Their stories intertwine in this spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393241402
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 09/02/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 1,016,772
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Dara Horn is the author of five novels and was one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. She has taught Jewish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. She lives in New Jersey with her family.
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