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Book SynopsisCynthia Ozick is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have won four O. Henry first prizes and, in 2012, her novel
Foreign Bodies was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She currently lives in New York.
Trade ReviewA Brilliant novel... The Messiah of Stockholm is a worthy companion to Philip Roth's superb Prague Orgy... A complex and fascinating meditation on the nature of writing and the responsibilities of those who choose to create - or judge - tales. -- Harold Bloom * New York Times *
Intriguing and entertaining... Ozick weaves a tale that is richly, intensely imagined * Anne Tyler *
Striking... Ozick writes with ferocious imaginative drive * Boston Globe *
A truly intriguing mystery...Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer, who can persuade the reader to believe the incredible * New York Review of Books *
