The World to Come by Dara Horn
A million dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely theif, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history-from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.
I love love love reading. Fiction especially. When I'm engrossed in a good book, there is nothing else around me, no one talking to me, no background noise, just me and an incredible story. I love reading stories about the past, and i love reading stories that take place in other cultures...soooo captivating. The World to Come is the first novel for 2010, and I cannot wait to find out what this story will teach me.
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