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The Chosen
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ISBN: 150114247X
Author: Potok, Chaim
Condition: New
This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Chaim Potoks coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, and includes a new introduction, critical essays, rare papers and photos, and much more.Its the spring of 1944 and fifteen-year-olds Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders have lived five blocks apart all their lives. But theyve never met, not until the day an accident during a softball game sparks an unlikely friendship. Soon these two boys-one expected to become a Hasidic rebbe, the other at ease with secular America-are drawn into one anothers worlds despite one fathers strong opposition.Set against the backdrop of WWII and the creation of the state of Israel, The Chosen is a poignant novel about transformation and tradition, growing up and growing wise, and finding yourself-even if that might mean leaving your community.
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