by Chaim Potok · Fawcett · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780449234952
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«The Chosen» is the novel by Chaim Potok, published by Fawcett in paperback (276 pages, in English).
The novel focuses on the friendship between two young Jewish men in 1940s Brooklyn: Danny, raised in a Hasidic family, and Reuven, raised in a Zionist family. Their bond, born after an incident at a baseball game, leads them to question faith, tradition, modernity, and their parents' expectations.
Originally published in 1967, it is the first installment of the Reuven Malter series.
For readers of historical fiction and book clubs interested in Jewish culture and stories of friendship and coming of age.
Chaim Potok, was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Among the more than a dozen books he authored, his first novel The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3.4 million copies as of 2002, and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.
