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The Gift of Asher Lev
 

The Gift of Asher Lev

by Chaim Potok

"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."
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Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction. When his beloved uncle dies suddenly, Asher and his family rush back to Brooklyn--and into... (read more)

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Luz L
  • Rated 4 stars

“The theme of this book has come back to me again and again throughout my life. I came to know Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag and Chaim Potok as a research librian working on the first ever Jewish American Bibliography ever compiled. The Asher Lev's were easy reads. Jewish American fiction in general has become a favorite of mine. But the Asher Lev books are of particular interest to me, because the idea that pain and suffering humble and make us human is true for me again and again. The idea...”

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Collin T
  • Rated 2 stars

“Read this only if you LOVED My Name Is Asher Lev.”

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  • Rated 4.157407 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

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