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Praise for Eternal Life
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2018
Booklist Editors’ Choice
Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2018
Finalist for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize and the Simpson Family Literary Prize
“Riveting, startling, hilarious, and sad—I’ve never read anything like it.”
—Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot
“[Eternal Life] shimmers with Horn’s signature blend of tragedy and spirituality.”
—Ron Charles, Washington Post
“The question at the heart of this wise and appealing novel is finally not how Rachel finds meaning in her eternal life. It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours.”
—Joshua Max Feldman, New York Times Book Review
“Masterful. . . . Eternal Life is at its core a serious meditation on the meaning of life and purpose of death.”
—Renee Ghert-Zand, Times of Israel
“The chilling pathos of Dara Horn’s Eternal Life is bound to turn every mortal reader into a philosopher of cosmic joy.”
—Cynthia Ozick, author of Antiquities
Praise for A Guide for the Perplexed
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Booklist Editors’ Choice
“Horn frames a contest between predetermination and free will in which her characters are each humbled, a religious dialogue taking the form of this humane, erudite novel.”
—Saul Austerlitz, Boston Globe
“Riveting. . . . This is extraordinary material, emotionally resonant and intellectually suggestive. . . . Beautifully written.”
—Wendy Smith, Washington Post
“[An] intense, multilayered story. . . . [Horn’s] writing comes from a place of deep knowledge.”
—Jami Attenberg, New York Times Book Review
“I really urge you to read Dara Horn.”
—Bill Goldstein, NBC Today Show
“Intricate and suspenseful, A Guide for the Perplexed is both learned and heartfelt, an exploration of human memory, its uses and misuses, that spans centuries in a twisty braid full of jaw-dropping revelations and breathtaking reversals. An elegant and brainy page-turner from a master storyteller.”
—Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Secret Chord
“Computer science and medieval philosophy mesh in Dara Horn’s accomplished novel about digital dangers and the nature of memory.”
—Barbara Kiser, Nature
“Wondrous. . . . [A] novelist at the height of her powers.”
—Andrew Furman, Miami Herald
Praise for All Other Nights
Booklist 25 Best Books of the Decade Book-of-the-Month Club Selection ABA Indie Book Sense Pick New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Slam-bang . . . superb . . . a gripping plot premise and a fascinatingly conflicted protagonist. . . . [A] marvelous variety of characters, each imagined with empathy and depth.”
—Wendy Smith, Washington Post
“Welcome to Dara Horn’s stellar third novel. . . . All Other Nights has the propulsive, suspenseful narrative of an espionage thriller, [and] the larger moral dilemmas Horn weaves into an epic.”
—Sarah Weinman, New York Post
“A tale of adventure . . . betrayal and love, dignity and loss, that takes the breath away and makes the heart pound.”
—Anne Roiphe, author of Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind
“An enjoyably fast-paced amalgam of historical romance, spy novel and political thriller . . . rare and memorable.”
—Emily Bingham, Wall Street Journal
“Engrossing. . . . [D]elicious.”
—Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, New York Times Book Review
Praise for The World to Come
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Entertainment Weekly Editors’ Choice New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Book-of-the Month Club Smart Readers Selection Book Sense Top 20 Pick
“Isn’t there a Willy Wonka gum that tastes like all good foods at once? If so, Dara Horn’s The World to Come is the literary equivalent of that confection. . . . [E]ach page of her novel is a marvel.”
—Debra Spark, San Francisco Chronicle
“Horn’s deft touch is often wryly funny —but never maliciously so. . . . An accomplished work that beautifully explains how families —in all their maddening, smothering, supportive glory — create us.”
—Natalie Danford, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Deeply sympathetic characters, an encyclopedic grasp of 20th-century history and a spiritual sense that sees through the conventional barriers between this life and the one to come — or the one before.”
—Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Symphonic and piercingly beautiful. . . . [T]he novel suspends us between emotions, never allowing any to become predominant, and we hang there in that indeterminate space, perfectly happy, hoping that the book will never end.”
—Bethany Schneider, Newsday
“A deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present—and how we haunt the future.”
—Lev Grossman, Time
Praise for In the Image
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award Winner of the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction Winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award
“Powerful . . . In the Image not only underscores Jewish identity in America, but more universally, gives suffering meaning and, in the end, hope.”
—Seattle Times
“[An] unsettling, otherworldly novel.”
—Boston Globe
“Told with moral passion, vigor, humor, and an unflagging fascination with the coincidences, miseries, grotesqueries, and triumphs of life.”
—Richard Snow, American Heritage
“Incredibly poignant . . . with audacious appropriation of lines and themes from Jewish texts. . . . It takes a writer with great self-confidence to pull off this sort of work. . . . [Horn is] a true talent.”
—Jerusalem Post
“Richly imagined. . . . [An] intricate web of miracles, coincidences and accidents of fate.”
—New York Times Book Review
“In the Image is not merely a striking success as a whole but a technical tour de force [that] has a strange, compelling, romantic fascination.”
—David Gelernter, Commentary
ALSO BY DARA HORN
In the Image
The World to Come
All Other Nights
A Guide for the Perplexed
Eternal Life
Copyright © 2021 by Dara Horn
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First Edition
Essays in this book originally appeared, in different form, in the following publications: “Everyone’s (Second) Favorite Dead Jew” and “Dead Jews of the Desert” in Smithsonian; “Frozen Jews,” “Fictional Dead Jews,” and passages from “Executed Jews” in Tablet; “Dead American Jews, Part One” and “Dead American Jews, Part Two” in the New York Times; “Executed Jews” in Jewish Review of Books; “Legends of Dead Jews” in Azure, as well as in the anthology Esther in America (Stuart Halpern, ed., Maggid Books, 2021, reprinted with permission from Maggid Books); and “Blockbuster Dead Jews” in the Atlantic. “On Rescuing Jews and Others” was originally published by Tablet as an Amazon Kindle Single entitled The Rescuer.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Horn, Dara, 1977– author.
Title: People love dead Jews : reports from a haunted present / Dara Horn.
Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021012209 | ISBN c (hardcover) |
ISBN 9780393531572 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Jews—History. | Jews—Public opinion. |
Jews—Persecutions—Public opinion. | Antisemitism—History. |
Death—Political aspects. | Horn, Dara, 1977–
Classification: LCC DS117 .H66 2021 | DDC 909/.04924—dc23
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