Dara Horn
Paperback | Pages: 302 pages Rating: 3.9 | 853 Users | 103 Reviews
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| Original Title: | In the Image: A Novel |
| ISBN: | 0393325261 (ISBN13: 9780393325263) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-32526-3/ |
| Literary Awards: | Edward Lewis Wallant Award (2003) |
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A young woman's coming of age, a romantic love story, and a spiritual journey—each infused with the lessons of history.In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God."
Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a New Jersey suburb with a passion for travel, is obsessed with building his slide collection of images from the Bible that he finds scattered throughout the world. The novel begins when he crosses paths with his granddaughter's friend, Leora, and continues by moving forward through her life and backward through his, revealing the unexpected links between his family's past and her family's future.
Not just a first novel but a cultural event—a wedding of secular and religious forms of literature—In the Image neither lives in the past nor seeks to escape it, but rather assimilates it, in the best sense of the word, honoring what is lost and finding, among the lost things, the treasures that can renew the present.
Details Based On Books In the Image
| Title | : | In the Image |
| Author | : | Dara Horn |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 302 pages |
| Published | : | September 17th 2003 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. Jewish. Historical. Historical Fiction. Religion. Judaism |
Rating Based On Books In the Image
Ratings: 3.9 From 853 Users | 103 ReviewsCritique Based On Books In the Image
I liked this book a lot, it's one of the books in which you are following different threads, not knowing for quite a while how they will be woven together. I feel like I can't give it justice in this review since I had surgery and read several books since I finished this one. I like how the author jumps around in time and place and takes us on a journey. She doesn't lose control of the story or lose my interest through out the entire book. I did not like how the author ended the book with aThis is a fantastic book -- I call it Jewish magical realism. There's a modern interpretation on the Book of Job in there as well. It's all about connections we don't always see.
Fans of this genre are likely to enjoy this book. But I can't say I fall into that particular category.
In The Image, by Dara Horn, is one of those books that evolves through the characters coming of age, journeying towards peace and acceptance, and sojourning towards spiritual identity. One young girl (Leora)l learns to accept the death of her best friend, through the slide images of her best friends grandfather. Leora learns to overcome her fear of loss and allows herself to fall in love.Accidents of fate are rarely fatal accidents, but once in a while they are.The grandfather (Bill Landsmann)
A well crafted book of substance. Not that easy to get into at first but well worth persisting. I loved the rich language and the parallel experiences of Bill and Leora visiting the Rijksmuseum and discovering the dolls houses.
Its a unique experience to read biblical themes in a modern secular novel. I read this authors more recent book, The World To Come, last year. Like this book it was a surprising reading experience of a biblically based allegory put into context of a modern Jewish American family. So I kept an eye out for Dara Horns other books. This is her debut novel that at the time received a lot of praise from both the religious and secular literary community. In The Image is partly a modern re-telling of
This actually accomplishes everything the execrable Family Orchard claims it does. It's a wonderful first novel.
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