Guide for the Perplexed Author:Jonathan Levi The setting is Mariposa, a bewitched Spanish town where two stranded women search for a mysterious man and pass the time by telling each other stories. — But before this spectacularly inventive novel is through, readers will have voyaged to the Egypt of Moses Maimonides, Torquemada's Spain, and Hitler's Germany - not to mention a New World encoun... more »tered simultaneously by Christopher Columbus and a group of Jewish stowaways.
Intermingling the medieval and the modern, stories of war and lost loves, lost children, lost Jews, the healing power of music, and the true origins of baseball, A Guide For the Perplexed combines the romantic erudition of Umberto Eco and A.S. Byatt with the ingenious storytelling of Scheherazade and A Thousand and One Nights.« less