A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel - Hardcover

Levi, Jonathan

 
9780679408932: A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel

Synopsis

Stranded by a strike at an airport in Spain, two women--Hanni, in Spain to locate important family documents, and Holland, a documentary filmmaker--discover that they are related by ties that reach back to the Spanish Inquisition

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Review

'A first novel of monumental ambition and striving imagination' --New York Times

'Levi's audacious debut rings changes on a variety of intellectual themes while chronicling the friendship of two women, both visitors in Spain, who discover their common bonds' --Publisher's Weekly

'Writes with a Saul Bellow-like braininess and brashness while also bearing the mark of such fabulists as Gunter Grass and Gabriel Garcia Marquez... vigorous, vivid, and grounded in the pleasures of the senses' --Newsday

About the Author

Jonathan Levi is an American writer and producer, and author of Septimania. His short stories and articles have also appeared in many magazines including Granta, Conde Nast Traveler,/em>, GQ, Terra Nova, The Nation,/em> and The New York Times. Born in New York, he currently lives in Rome.

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