A Guide for the Perplexed
Dara Horn$13.56
$15.95
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/07/2014
ISBN: 9780393348880
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.52w x 0.88d
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/06/2014 pg. 24