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Overview
"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal."
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....
This is the odyssey from boyhood to manhood for two Jewish boys amidst the conflict between generations and religious traditions.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up-The Jewish enclaves of Brooklyn, NY, form the backdrop for Chaim Potok's classic novel (Fawcett, 1975) that begins just before D-Day and traces the unlikely friendship of two Jewish teens as they watch World War II draw to a close and the new state of Israel emerge. The story revolves around the evolving, and sometimes painful, relationships between these boys and their fathers, and the conflicts the young men must face as they come of age. Jonathan Davis narrates with a gentle touch that warmly conveys the book's serious, and occasionally playful, text. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1995
Publisher
New York : Fawcett Crest, 1982.
Pages
304
Format
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN
9780449213445