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Evenbeeld
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. -
376 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 12, 2022
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About the author
Dara Horn
24 books816 followersDara Horn is the award-winning author of six books. One of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists (2007), she is the recipient of three National Jewish Book Awards, among other honors, and she was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into twelve languages.
Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications.
Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia.
She currently serves as Creative Adviser for The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.
She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications.
Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia.
She currently serves as Creative Adviser for The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.
She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
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