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Author: Potok, Chaim
ISBN: 9780449221389

de Chaim Potok

This stunning departure for the beloved author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev is a powerful story of love and war in Korea. An old peasant farmer and his wife are fleeing the Chinese during the Korean War when they come across a wounded boy who, they believe, has magical powers.

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"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEAs the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....From the Paperback edition.

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"[Chaim] Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand. . . . Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page."--San Francisco Chronicle As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend. . . .

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"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEAs the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....

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Título I Am the Clay
Autor Chaim Potok
Encuadernación Mass Market Paperbound
Edición Reprint
Páginas 256
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial Fawcett Books, U.S.A.
Fecha de publicación 1993-12-04
ISBN 9780449221389 / 0449221385
Peso 0.27 libras (0.12 kg)
Dimensiones 6.87 x 4.2 x 0.71 pulgadas (17.45 x 10.67 x 1.80 cm)
Temas
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
Library of Congress subjects War stories, Korean War, 1950-1953
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Chaim Potok was born in New York City in 1929. He graduated from Yeshiva University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was ordained as a rabbi, and earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America. Potok's first novel, The Chosen, published in 1967, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Memorial Book Award and was nominated for the National Book Award. He is author of eight novels, including In the Beginning and My Name Is Asher Lev, and Wanderings, a history of the Jews. He died in 2002.

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Fawcett Crest Books / Ballantine, 1994. 1st Ballantine.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Barely any creasing. Minimal edge bumping.. 1 241p. Korean War era fiction: Unexpected flowering of love and family cohesion in the confusion and danger of war. A peasant farming family in Korea is heading away from encroaching Chinese and the army of the North. They come upon a wounded and unconscious boy in a ditch. The mother wants to care for him, the father thinks she is crazy. The boy does not die; the father begins to think the boy has magic in him.

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