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A review by zombi
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
5.0
Potok once stated that of all his fictional characters, Asher Lev was the one with whom he identified the most.
My Name is Asher Lev was recommended to me by my friend Tessa during our junior year in high school. It is the story of Asher Lev, a boy born with a prodigious artistic ability into a Hasidic Jewish family in 1940s Brooklyn. The book is replete with powerful imagery and introspective phrases, linking religions and art and family and love and hate.
Interesting to note, the first "Brooklyn Crucifixion", a work by Asher which plays a central role in the novel's conclusion, is an actual painting by Potok himself.
My Name is Asher Lev was recommended to me by my friend Tessa during our junior year in high school. It is the story of Asher Lev, a boy born with a prodigious artistic ability into a Hasidic Jewish family in 1940s Brooklyn. The book is replete with powerful imagery and introspective phrases, linking religions and art and family and love and hate.
Interesting to note, the first "Brooklyn Crucifixion", a work by Asher which plays a central role in the novel's conclusion, is an actual painting by Potok himself.