{"product_id":"forest-dark","title":"Forest Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nJules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIn the wake of his parents’ deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he feels an all-consuming need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nWith the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nHe also meets the rabbi’s daughter, who convinces him to become involved in her own project—a film about the life of David being shot in the desert—with life-changing consequences.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nBut Epstein isn’t the only seeker embarking on a metaphysical journey that dissolves his sense of self, place, and history.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nLeaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer’s block and a failing marriage, she hopes the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality—and her own perception of life—that has been closed off to her.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nBut when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can’t turn down, she’s drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nBursting with life and humor, \u003cem\u003eForest Dark\u003c\/em\u003e is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible toward the infinite.\r\n\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eAuthor: Nicole Krauss\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eSKU: HC-FDB\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\r\n","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67821575700796,"sku":"HC-FDB","price":14.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/1162\/2204\/files\/screenshot_2026-06-10_at_10.43.09_am.png?v=1792705251","url":"https:\/\/merkos302.judaica.com\/products\/forest-dark","provider":"merkos302","version":"1.0","type":"link"}