description: "REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."--The Boston GlobeThe 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 ChronicleFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family
titlecomplete: The Gates of November: Chronicles of the Slepak Family
characters: Volodya Slepak, Solomon Slepak
genres: Jewish, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Biography, Russia, Religion, Judaism, Politics, History, Historical
ratings_count: 690
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd