LEADER 04435nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910789810103321 005 20230607232016.0 010 $a1-283-05788-3 010 $a9786613057884 010 $a0-300-16883-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168839 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081346 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050167 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470476 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284138 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470476 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10412091 035 $a(PQKB)10582578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420671 035 $a(DE-B1597)486330 035 $a(OCoLC)711000600 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168839 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420671 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456388 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305788 035 $a(OCoLC)923595872$z(OCoLC)711000600 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081346 100 $a20100902d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIphigenia in Forest Hills $eanatomy of a murder trial /$fJanet Malcolm 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (155 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-16746-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $t1 -- $t2 -- $t3 -- $t4 -- $t5 -- $t6 -- $t7 -- $t8 -- $t9 -- $t10 -- $t11 -- $t12 -- $t13 -- $t14 -- $t15 -- $t16 -- $t17 -- $t18 -- $t19 -- $t20 -- $t21 -- $t22 -- $t23 -- $t24 -- $t25 -- $t26 -- $t27 -- $t28 -- $t29 -- $t30 330 $a"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its first pages, a genuine spell - the kind of spell to which Ms. Malcolm's admirers (and I am one) have become addicted."-Dwight Garner, New York Times "She couldn't have done it and she must have done it." This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The defendant, Mazoltuv Borukhova, a beautiful young physician, is accused of hiring an assassin to kill her estranged husband, Daniel Malakov, a respected orthodontist, in the presence of their four-year old child. The prosecutor calls it an act of vengeance: just weeks before Malakov was killed in cold blood, he was given custody of Michelle for inexplicable reasons. It is the "Dickensian ordeal" of Borukhova's innocent child that drives Malcolm's inquiry. With the intellectual and emotional precision for which she is known, Malcolm looks at the trial-"a contest between competing narratives"-from every conceivable angle. It is the chasm between our ideals of justice and the human factors that influence every trial-from divergent lawyering abilities to the nature of jury selection, the malleability of evidence, and the disposition of the judge-that is perhaps most striking. Surely one of the most keenly observed trial books ever written, Iphigenia in Forest Hills is ultimately about character and "reasonable doubt." As Jeffrey Rosen writes, it is "as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel. "Iphigenia in Forest Hills is another dazzling triumph from Janet Malcolm. Here, as always, Malcolm's work inspires the best kind of disquiet in a reader-the obligation to think." -Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court "A remarkable achievement that ranks with Malcolm's greatest books. Her scrupulous reporting and interviews with protagonists on both sides of the trial make her own narrative as suspenseful and exciting as a detective story, with all the moral and intellectual interest of a great novel." -Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America 606 $aTrials (Murder)$zNew York (State)$zQueens County 606 $aMurder for hire$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aJews, Bukharan$zNew York (State)$zNew York 607 $aQueens (New York, N.Y.) 615 0$aTrials (Murder) 615 0$aMurder for hire 615 0$aJews, Bukharan 676 $a345.747/24302523 700 $aMalcolm$b Janet$0169162 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789810103321 996 $aIphigenia in Forest Hills$91713374 997 $aUNINA