The Gates of November by Chaim Potok

The Gates of November by Chaim Potok

REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY.
--The Boston Globe

The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a refusenik, who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, unfolds the gripping true story of a father, a son, and a conflict that spans Soviet history. Drawing on taped interviews and his harrowing visits to Russia, Potok traces the public and privates lives of the Slepak family: Their passions and ideologies, their struggles to reconcile their identities as Russians and as Jews, their willingness to fight--and die--for diametrically opposed political beliefs.

A] vivid account . . . Potok] brings a novelist's passion and eye for detail to a gripping story that possesses many of the elements of fiction--except that it's all too true.
--San Francisco Chronicle

Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Potok's first novel, The Chosen, published in 1967, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. He is author of eight novels, including In the Beginning and My Name Is Asher Lev, and Wanderings, a history of the Jews. He died in 2002.

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ISBN 13	9780449912409
ISBN 10	044991240X
Title	The Gates of November
Author	Chaim Potok
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1997-09-08
Number of pages	272
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