THE BOOK FAIR
READ AND FULFILL YOUR LIFE
Dara Horn
THE WORLD
TO COME
Author: Dara Horn
Published: 2006
Genre: Novel
Cover: E-Book
Pages: 315
Thoughtful, clever, and mysterious, Dara Horn offers a series of interrelated vignettes that disclose a diverse range of characters who span time and place. From Russia to the U.S. to Viet Nam, the narratives unfold to reveal stories of love, repression, terror, deceit, loyalty, betrayal, and freedom. The author craftily builds the characters, each distinct in his or her own hopes, dreams and sorrows. The repetitive use of descriptive and symbolic words and phrases, thread and tie throughout the novel.
Lyrical, with Kabalistic themes, historically informative, and based in religion and politics, the author ties three generations of one family together in both the spiritual and physical worlds. Horn intersperses actual personages throughout the novel and based the story on an actual art theft from a museum.
ALL
OTHER
NIGHTS
Author: Dara Horn
Published: 2010
Genre: Historical Novel
Cover: E-Book
Pages: 374
Full of surprises with many elaborate twists and turns, the story, set during the American Civil War, keeps one engaged and guessing until the very end.
Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish, Union soldier, hoping for a simple promotion, follows unexpected demands and agrees to spy for the North. Jacob, plunged into the depths of secrecy, commits acts he formerly believed himself incapable of perpetrating. However, as Jacob sinks further into the spy web, in an unlikely scenario, he also meets the woman of his dreams.
Driven by moral obligation and undeterred devotion to his country, Jacob struggles, hurled in and out of danger, as he seeks out the woman he loves. Quirky characters mixed with historical personages deal with love and loss and honor and betrayal.
Horn successfully weaves together enchanting and historic tales based on actual events. Amid the author’s plentiful, colorful and imaginative stories lies a plethora of Jewish traditions and customs that thread throughout.