THE WORLD TO COME
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THE WORLD TO COME (ebook)

DARA HORN

$363.69
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W. W. NORTON & COMPANY (ORM)
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9780393066876
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Inglés
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"Nothing short of amazing." — Entertainment Weekly A million-dollar Chagall is stolen from a museum during a singles' cocktail hour. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy Benjamin Ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents' living room. This work of art opens a door through which we discover his family's startling history—from an orphanage in Soviet Russia where Chagall taught to suburban New Jersey and the jungles of Vietnam.

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