{"title":"Dara Horn","description":"\u003cp\u003eDara Horn's work spans across \u003cem\u003egeneral fiction\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003efantasy\u003c\/em\u003e, blending rich storytelling with profound explorations of history, memory, and identity. Her narratives often weave together elements of myth and reality, inviting readers into thought-provoking worlds where past and present collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom imaginative novels to reflective essays, Horn's writing challenges conventional boundaries and offers deep insights into culture and human experience. Her books resonate with those who appreciate literature that is both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"people-love-dead-jews-by-dara-horn-9781324035947","title":"People Love Dead Jews","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRenowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realise what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster travelling exhibition \u003cem\u003eAuschwitz\u003c\/em\u003e, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the \"righteous Gentile\" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHorn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare's Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children's school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of \"Never forget,\" is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanisation built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow including a reading group guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46796541296876,"sku":"9781324035947","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11043863482659.jpg?v=1757099676"},{"product_id":"eternal-life-by-dara-horn-9780393608533","title":"Eternal Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she's tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren—consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering—develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, \u003cem\u003eEternal Life\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853257199852,"sku":"9780393608533","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3166213482328.jpg?v=1759193327"},{"product_id":"one-little-goat-by-dara-horn-9781324082132","title":"One Little Goat","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman—the hidden matzah required to end the meal—and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow the family's \u003cem\u003ewise child\u003c\/em\u003e must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passovers to find it—and to discover the questions he needs to start asking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46995891978476,"sku":"9781324082132","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b54d23b8ff6aed19f28aacebe69f5c21.jpg?v=1763159595"},{"product_id":"eternal-life-by-dara-horn-9780393356564","title":"Eternal Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat would it really mean to live forever?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marriages, and hundreds of children. In the 2,000 years since she made a spiritual bargain to save the life of her first son back in Roman-occupied Jerusalem, she’s tried everything to free herself, and only one other person in the world understands: a man she once loved passionately, who has been stalking her through the centuries, convinced they belong together forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut as the twenty-first century begins and her children and grandchildren—consumed with immortality in their own ways, from the frontiers of digital currency to genetic engineering—develop new technologies that could change her fate and theirs, Rachel knows she must find a way out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eEternal Life\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010581770476,"sku":"9780393356564","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393356564-eternal-life.jpg?v=1785152060"},{"product_id":"a-guide-for-the-perplexed-by-dara-horn-9780393348880","title":"A Guide for the Perplexed","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftware 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 post-revolutionary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Guide for the Perplexed\u003c\/em\u003e by Dara Horn explores these themes in an intriguing narrative that captivates readers from start to finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240571613420,"sku":"9780393348880","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780393348880-a-guide-for-the-perplexed-1.jpg?v=1787919871"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/dara-horn.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}