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The Chosen

Chaim Potok

  • 284 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1966
  • 68 editions
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1 About this book

It's about two jewish boys from different jewish sects with very differing doctrine. The kids meet in the unlikely circumstance of a baseball game, and a terrible accident, that leads them to be lifelong friends.

Good for readers who want: a coming-of-age story and friendship.

  • Friendship
  • Male friendship
  • Domestic fiction
  • Bildungsromans
  • Coming of age
  • Family life
  • Jewish families
  • Jewish people

2 About Chaim Potok

1929–2002

Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002), 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.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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