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The critics
agree: In the Image is the must-read Jewish book of the year.
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"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
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"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
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"[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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"An
ebullient and vibrant new voice."
-- The
Jewish Week
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"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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