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Book Review Nicole Krauss's New Novel: If Kafka Met Dante in an Israeli Desert

Two New York Jews adrift in Israel seek answers through Kafka, kabbalah and the Tel Aviv Hilton in Krauss's eagerly awaited new novel, 'Forest Dark.'

Sep 12, 2017 2:13 PM

“Forest Dark,” by Nicole Krauss, Harper, 304 pp., $27.99

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