The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family - Softcover

Potok, Chaim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 044991240X ISBN 13: 9780449912409

Verlag: Random House Publishing Group, 1997

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Book by Potok Chaim Slepak Leonid Slepak Vladimir Slepak A

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Chronicles the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son in the Soviet Union, profiling Solomon Slepak, an old-guard Bolshevik, and his son Voldya, a "refusenik" persecuted and imprisoned for trying to leave the Soviet Union

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ABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."
--The Boston Globe

The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father held dear. Now, Chaim Potok, beloved author of the award-winning novels The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, unfolds the gripping true story of a father, a son, and a conflict that spans Soviet history. Drawing on taped interviews and his harrowing visits to Russia, Potok traces the public and privates lives of the Slepak family: Their passions and ideologies, their struggles to reconcile their identities as Russians and as Jews, their willingness to fight--and die--for diametrically opposed political beliefs.

"[A] vivid account . . . [Potok] brings a novelist's passion and eye for detail to a gripping story that possesses many of the elements of fiction--except that it's all too true."
--San Francisco Chronicle

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• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 044991240X
• ISBN 13: 9780449912409
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272