Chosen
Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780141040776
Subjects: Fiction, coming of age; Fiction, family life; Fiction, jewish; Fathers and sons, fiction; New york (state), fiction; Friendship, fiction
Description: Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic sect that keeps him bound in centuries of orthodoxy. Reuven is brought up by a father patently aware of the twentieth century. Everything tries to destroy their friendship, but they use honesty with each other as a shield and it proves an impenetrable protection.