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My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
A beautiful, humane and inspiring book - perfectly captures the tensions between the individual with his brilliant creative impulse and the tradition and life of the religious community with its sacrificial and costly commitment to each others' well-being. Asher Lev is a brilliant creation - we struggle with him as he grows up and charts a path through the confusions and inconsistencies of modern life. He is a very sympathetic character. Potok is one of those rare writers who can evoke the mind and confusions of a child perfectly. What's more, the book provides the reader with real insight (emotional and cultural) to a culture which seems alien to many and yet which has suffered and survived.
This book is as relevant now as it ever was - both for a secularising world which is uncomprehending about the religious life, and for the technological and corporate world which is uncomprehending about the artistic life. Truly magnificent.
This book is as relevant now as it ever was - both for a secularising world which is uncomprehending about the religious life, and for the technological and corporate world which is uncomprehending about the artistic life. Truly magnificent.