Chaim Potok

The 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.

Para Davita Chandal, crecer en Nueva York en las décadas de 1930 y 1940 es a la vez una experiencia de alegría indescriptible y de inconmensurable tristeza. Sus amorosos padres, ambos fervientes militantes comunistas, la contagian con el brillo feroz de la esperanza de un mundo nuevo y mejor. Pero las privaciones de la guerra y la Depresión se cobran su implacable peaje. Inesperadamente, Davita encuentra en la fe judía —que hace largo tiempo...

Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there's a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew, brought up to accept faith blindly by his father--an ultra-orthodox rabbi who rejects the 20th century for the special joys of centuries--old tradition. Reuven, on the other hand, has been brought up by his father who is a secular...