Name: In the Image: A Novel
ISBN: 9780393325263

Dara Horn

Losing a friend in high school, Leora continues on to college, her career, and falling in love, while her lost friend's grandfather, Bill, remembers his experiences in Amsterdam and Austria. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

In the Image: A Novel

cedar winslow

wow… this book made me understand how different people understand the magical synchronicities of life. i couldn’t put it down, loved every character and every plot line, I still think about this book often

A young woman's coming of age, a romantic love story, and a spiritual journey—each infused with the lessons of history. In the Image is an extraordinary first novel illuminated by spiritual exploration, one that remembers "a language, a literature, a held hand, an entire world lived and breathed in the image of God." Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a New Jersey suburb with a passion for travel, is obsessed with building his slide collection of images from the Bible that he finds scattered throughout the world. The novel begins when he crosses paths with his granddaughter's friend, Leora, and continues by moving forward through her life and backward through his, revealing the unexpected links between his family's past and her family's future. Not just a first novel but a cultural event—a wedding of secular and religious forms of literature—In the Image neither lives in the past nor seeks to escape it, but rather assimilates it, in the best sense of the word, honoring what is lost and finding, among the lost things, the treasures that can renew the present. Reading group guide included.

In the Image: A Novel

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