num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: The World to Come
titlecomplete: The World to Come
genres: Jewish, Art, Historical Fiction, Historical, Judaism, Novels, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 8459
places: New Jersey, Soviet Union
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser
category: Cover
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company