The Gates of November
Language: English
20th Century Asian Biography & Autobiography Biography & Memoir Communism & Socialism Dissenters Europe Family Fiction General Historical Historical - General History History - General History History Of Jews Holocaust Jewish Jewish Studies Jewish communists Jewish communists - Soviet Union - Biography Jews Jews - Soviet Union - Biography Judaism Mariya Nonfiction Political Ideologies Political Science Refuseniks Refuseniks - Biography Religion Russia Russia & the Former Soviet Union Slepak Slepak family Social & Cultural Studies Social Science Solomon Solomon - Family Soviet Union Vladimir
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Feb 24, 2010
Description:
"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."
--The Boston Globe
The 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 Chronicle