num_pages: 342
description: The incomparable Dara Horn returns with a spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypts postrevolutionary chaos Josie is abductedleaving Judith free to take over Josies life at home including her husband and daughter while Josies talent for preserving memories becomes a surprising test of her empathy and her only means of escape.A century earlier another traveler arrives in Egypt: Solomon Schechter a Cambridge professor hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Both he and Josie are haunted by the work of the medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides a doctor and rationalist who sought to reconcile faith and science destiny and free will. But what Schechter finds as he tracks down the remnants of a thousand-year-old communitys once-vibrant life will reveal the power and perils of what Josies ingenious work brings into being: a world where nothing is ever forgotten.An engrossing adventure that intertwines stories from Genesis medieval philosophy and the digital frontier A Guide for the Perplexed is a novel of profound inner meaning and astonishing imagination.See also: String Theory: The Parents Askenazi the digital only prequel to A Guide for the Perplexed.
language: English
title: A Guide for the Perplexed
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company