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The ruined house : a novel

Namdar, Ruby, 1964- author, Halkin, Hillel, 1939- translator

Overview

Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative culture at New York University, is at the zenith of his life. Adored by his classes and published in prestigious literary magazines, he is about to receive a coveted promotion--the crowning achievement of an enviable career. He is on excellent terms with Linda, his ex-wife, and his two grown children admire and adore him. His girlfriend, Ann Lee, a former student half his age, offers lively companionship. A man of elevated taste, education, and culture, he is a model of urbanity and success. But the manicured surface of his world begins to crack when he is visited by a series of strange and inexplicable visions involving an ancient religious ritual that will upend his comfortable life. Beautiful, mesmerizing, and unsettling, The Ruined House unfolds over the course of one year, as Andrew's world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs. Ruby Namdar's brilliant novel embraces the themes of the American Jewish literary canon as it captures the privilege and pedantry of New York intellectual life in the opening years of the twenty-first century.

• Publisher: HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• Subject: College teachers Fiction. / Visions Fiction. / Mysticism Fiction. / Cabala Fiction.
• ISBN: 9780062467485, 0062467484

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PJ5055.35.A34 B3913 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE