Book
The chosen : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION POTO (CEN)
Publication Information
New York : Ballantine Books, [2003]
Physical Description
284 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss, love, and the journey to adulthood.
Notes
Includes "An appreciation of Chaim Potok's The chosen, by Daniel Walden."
Contents
- Includes a readers' guide with "An appreciation of Chaim Potok's The chosen, by Daniel Walden."