After the critical and commercial success of her Orange Prize-shortlisted novel,
Foreign Bodies (2012), Atlantic Books is proud to republish what is widely cons
idered to be Cynthia Ozick's masterpiece, The Messiah of Stockholm Lars Andeming
, perhaps overly intellectual and certainly eccentric, is the Monday book review
er for a Stockholm daily. He is also the self-proclaimed son of Bruno Schulz, a
Polish writer who was executed by the Nazis before his last novel, The Messiah,
could be published. When a manuscript of The Messiah mysteriously appears in Sto
ckholm, in the possession of Schulz's 'daughter', Lars's circumscribed world of
paper, apartment, and favorite bookstore turns upside down, catapulting him into
a whirlwind of dream, magic, and illusion.
