Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a New Jersey suburb, collects images from the Bible that he finds scattered throughout the world. The novel begins when he crosses paths with his granddaughter's friend, Leora, revealing the unexpected links between his family's past and her family's future.
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Bill Landsmann, an elderly Jewish refugee in a New Jersey suburb, collects images from the Bible that he finds scattered throughout the world. The novel begins when he crosses paths with his granddaughter's friend, Leora, revealing the unexpected links between his family's past and her family's future.
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I bought this book after reading an excerpt of Horn's third novel in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. The excerpt was very impressive in terms of style, substance, character, and all the other tidbits that make a great piece of writing, so I promptly ordered a copy of 'In the Image'. In essence, the book is about different generations of Jews reacting in different ways to fairly similar situations that they experienced. It thus fits into the emerging genre of New American Jewish writing (with Foer; Krauss, etc), which was spawned from the old guard of Roth, Bellow etc...While it interested me on this level - as part of an oeuvre - as an independent work, the book felt stilted, overly-orchestrated - too geared up to fit in the set-plays tha Horn had probably thought up over the previous few years. There are moments of great insight, and some pithy aphorisms, but both are far too scarce, and after 150 pages I began to feel exasperated and even slightly bored by the one-dimensional characters. In fact, it's precisely Horn's determination to have the character's appear as real-living-breathing-enigmnatic creations that makes them feel so tacked-on and unconvincing. Nothing feels natural in this book - just compare with Foer's 'Everything is Illuminated', where we have three-dimensional characters exploring themselves and their Jewishness (as well as that of others) in a much more interesting and entertaining way. I thought the idea about the tefillin (two small black boxes with black straps attached to them that Jewish men place on their head and arm each weekday morning during prayer) had potential, and worked well at moments, but her attempts to work a sort of magic-realism aura into this and a few other parts of the novel constituted the most lacklustre parts, because they just felt too forced. Horn writes in the novel about adolesents searching for their true selves, and from the quality of the excerpt of her third novel - and the difference in style - I would have to say that 'In the Image' was part of her jounrney of novelistic self-discovery. I hope she writes how she wants to write in the future, and not how she feels she should be writing (as a Jew?) - because 'In the Image' felt too much like she was writing in a style that she wanted to aspire to, rather than in a style that came naturally to her. Despite my disappointment, I'll still read her new novel.
