The Chosen

"Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....

Chaim Potok was born and raised in New York City. He began to write fiction at the age of sixteen, graduated with a B.A. summa cum laude in English literature, and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of nine novels and two works of nonfiction: Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews and The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family. His novel, The Promise, was given the Athenaeum Prize, and another novel, The Gift of Asher Lev, won the National Jewish Book Award. He lives outside Philadelphia.