Chaim Potok Ordine dei libri

Aujourd'hui, Brian est allé avec ses parents visiter la statue de la Liberté. Arrivé tout en haut, dans la tête de la statue, Brian s'est approché de la vitre et il a regardé en bas. Il a eu très peur, ses genoux tremblaient et il s'est senti tomber, tomber... Est-ce que c'est ça, avoir le vertige ? Comment pourra-t-il devenir pilote, comme son Oncle Conor, s'il a le vertige ? Ce que ne sait pas encore Brian, c'est que son Oncle Conor, justement, lui a préparé une incroyable surprise pour ses dix ans. La surprise s'appelle Roi du ciel. Elle attend au bout d'un champ immense. " Est-ce que tu veux toujours devenir pilote ? " demande Oncle Conor.

From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev , a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century. Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives. As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In “The Ark Builder,” he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town. As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in “The War Doctor,” her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors’ plot. And, finally, we meet her in “The Trope Teacher,” in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wife’s illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. D. (Ilana Davita) Chandal. Poignant and profound, Chaim Potok’s newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkable—and remarkably loved—body of work.

Meistererzählungen des großen jüdisch-amerikanischen Romanciers – bitterzarte Geschichten vom Erwachsenwerden und Momentaufnahmen der amerikanischen Gegenwart Chaim Potoks Geschichten erzählen von den großen und kleinen Begebenheiten, die ein junges Leben erschüttern können: ein Unfall, der Verlust eines lieben Menschen, die Entdeckung der Schatten, die über einer Familie liegen, oder der Geheimnisse, die sich dicht unter der Oberfläche eines heilen Familienlebens verbergen. Sie stehen – manche urplötzlich, manche langsam aus der Erinnerung aufsteigend – am Beginn des Erwachsenenlebens. Junge Leser erfahren in diesen Geschichten mehr über Amerika als in noch so vielen Hollywood-Filmen.

The renowned author of nine books for adults, including The Chosen, turns his writing toward young adults in this collection of six stories in which children face moments of crisis or grief and see their world anew. In the title story, Zebra learns to use his crushed right hand and leg in an art class.

The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture. Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers into the dramatic era of Rabbinic Judaism. Watch the great Talmudic sages at work in the Sanhedrin, eavesdrop on their arguments about theology and Torah, and agonize with them as they contemplate rebellion against an oppressive Roman rule. But Steinberg's classic novel also transcends its historical setting with its depiction of a timeless, perennial feature of the Jewish experience: the inevitable conflict between the call of tradition and the glamour of the surrounding culture. In his illuminating foreword, specially commissioned for this edition, Chaim Potok stresses the contemporary relevance of As a Driven Leaf: This novel of ideas and passions... retains its ability to enter the heart of pious and seeking Jew alike. Synagogues everywhere are adopting As a Driven Leaf for group study.

Quelle che Potok racconta sotto forma di romanzo in "Novembre alle porte" sono le vicende di Salomon Slepak e di suo figlio Volodya. Solomon, ebreo, bolscevico, comandante militare e diplomatico, riuscì a sopravvivere miracolosamente alle purghe staliniane e mantenne fino alla fine la fede nel comunismo. Suo figlio Volodya entrò a far parte dell'élite scientifica moscovita, finché non scelse la strada del dissenso: per diciotto anni Volodya e sua moglie Mascia furono oggetto delle malevole attenzioni di governo e servizi segreti. Attraverso questa tormentata e avvincente vicenda familiare, Potok racconta dall'interno il dramma della Russia della Rivoluzione d'Ottobre a oggi. Così il contrasto tra padre e figlio - uno dei grandi temi della sua narrativa - dà concretezza e comprensibilità alla storia del nostro secolo.

Een oude joodse man vertelt aan zijn kleindochter zijn levensgeschiedenis, waarin gebeurtenissen in eerst het tsaristische Rusland en later de stalinistische Sovjet-Unie centraal staan.

Een Koreaans echtpaar, in 1955 op de vlucht voor het Chinese en Noordkoreaanse leger, ontfermt zich over een zwaargewonde jongen.

Roman om et ældre ægtepar og en dreng og deres panikagtige flugt mod Seoul under Koreakrigen

Asher Lev è un ebreo osservante che, a dispetto delle circostanze più avverse, è diventato un pittore di fama internazionale. Quando muore un amato zio, deve intraprendere il viaggio di ritorno con la moglie e i due bambini da Parigi a New York. Asher Lev sente che «qualcosa di strano sta accadendo a Brooklyn... una vaga sensazione di venire risucchiato» e quasi subito deve fronteggiare lo sdegno nel suo ambiente d'origine e le difficoltà che causano alla sua famiglia. Dolorosamente, si ritrova al centro del conflitto tra la cultura in cui è nato e la cultura che ha forgiato per sé stesso e che vent'anni prima l'aveva spinto all'esilio.