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IN THE IMAGE
a novel by Dara Horn


Now in Paperback from W. W. Norton & Company
 

The critics agree: In the Image is the must-read Jewish book of the year.

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (2003)
Winner of the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction (2003)
Winner of the
Edward Lewis Wallant Award (2002)

 

"The most innovative Jewish novel in a year dominated by Jewish debutante novelists ... Just as there is a city beneath a city in Horn's novel, there are ideas beneath ideas."
-- The Forward

 

"A stunning example of how to thread the warp of Jewish history into the woof of contemporary American Jewish life.  A riveting tale, one that explores a Jewish past as skillfully as it measures the Jewish present.  In the Image unfolds (and then folds together) its interlocked stories in an accessible way.  With this work Dara Horn joins an already impressive gallery of young American Jewish writers."
-- Hadassah Magazine

 

"[A] fascinating first novel by Dara Horn ... 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 and one of the more promising young American Jewish novelists of the new century."
-- Jerusalem Post

 

"In the Image brilliantly combines a renewed interest in Jewish ideas with the old-as-the-hills requirements of good fiction: compelling themes, absorbing plots, characters we care about, and good writing. Modeled on what she learned from an academic study of modern Hebrew literature, Horn conjures up a world in which we feel the presence of 'a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God.'"
-- Reform Judaism Magazine

Jerusalem Report

"Wunderkind Dara Horn’s precocious first novel reflects her philosophy that it’s not our experiences that form us, but how we react to them." 
-- Jerusalem Report

 

Commentary

"In this beautiful first novel, twenty-five-year-old Dara Horn meets you like a torch-bearer in the dark entryway of a mysterious castle, and you follow her into a fascinating labyrinth without looking back ... 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."
-- Commentary Magazine

 

"An ebullient and vibrant new voice."
-- The Jewish Week

 

"An ambitious and absorbing first novel, In the Image delves into themes of rootedness and exile, good and evil, free will and fate, estrangement from and return to Judaism, and the power of memory, history, and love."
-- Jewish Woman Magazine

 

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