A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED by Dara Horn
Finished this book in three days, which is pretty amazing for me, with fiction, but this well written novel held my attention. I finished reading A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED by Dara Horn, and do not find it recorded here. Software Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt’s post revolutionary chaos, with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides’ famous A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED. Led to read this book, by having read Peter Hessler’s The Buried (Egypt then and now…archaeology and the revolution), I was not disappointed but totally enhralled by her strategizing and well crafted novel. Her jealous sister takes over her husband and daughter when she has to send a death video. One anticipates this as in the beginning, when children, Judith leaves her in a pit, into which the children have made her crawl and take away the ladder, an act ...