{"product_id":"2940170776597","title":"The World to Come","description":"An intoxicating combination of mystery, spirituality, redemption, piety, and passion, \u003ci\u003eThe World To Come\u003c\/i\u003e is Dara Horn's follow-up to her breakout, critically acclaimed debut novel \u003ci\u003eIn the Image\u003c\/i\u003e. Using a real-life art heist as her starting point, Horn traces the life and times of several characters, including Russian-born artist Marc Chagall and the New Jersey-based Ziskind family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Ziskind, a former child prodigy, now spends his days writing questions for a television trivia show. After Ben's twin sister, Sara, forces him to attend a singles cocktail party at a Jewish museum, Ben spots \u003ci\u003eOver Vitebsk\u003c\/i\u003e, a Chagall sketch that once hung in the twins' childhood home. Convinced the painting was stolen from his family, Ben steals the work of art and enlists Sara to create a forgery to replace it. While trying to evade the police, Ben attempts to find the truth of how the painting got to the museum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a Jewish orphanage in 1920s Soviet Russia where Marc Chagall brought art to orphaned Jewish boys, to a junior high school in Newark, New Jersey, with a stop in the jungles of Da Nang, Vietnam, Horn weaves a story of mystery, romance, folklore, history and theology into a spellbinding modern tale. Richly satisfying and utterly unique, her novel opens the door to \"the world to come\"-not life after death, but the world we create through our actions right now.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105128726768,"sku":"2940170776597","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170776597_p0.jpg?v=1763717288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170776597","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}