A Guide for the Perplexed

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides' famous work to anchor her--leaving her jealous sister Judith free to take over her life. A century earlier, Cambridge professor Solomon Schechter arrives in Egypt, hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Their stories intertwine in this spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.

Author: Dara Horn
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/07/2014
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.52w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780393348880

About the Author
Horn, Dara: - Dara Horn is the author of five novels and one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. She has taught Jewish literature at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.