The Virtual Image

An Interactive Reading Companion

For curious readers, this page provides chapter-by-chapter links to sites which reveal some of the real historical, cultural, or other roots of the stories, scenes, and incidents that appear in the novel.  

(For the W. W. Norton Reading Group Guide, click here.)

 

 

 

Chapter 1

Tourists

 

Chapter 2

In the Valley of Discarded Names

 

Chapter 3

Barbarians at the Gates

 

Chapter 4

The Missing Link

 

Chapter 5

Go Bang Your Head Against the Wall

 

Chapter 6

A Long and Dreamless Night

 

Chapter 7

The Same Long and Dreamles Night, Elsewhere

 

Chapter 8

The Better Deal

 

Chapter 9

Floodgates

Chapter 10

The Book of Hurricane Job

Chapter 11

A Tourist in the Lost City

 

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The World to Come is now available for the revolutionary Amazon Kindle electronic book reader.

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