My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok
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Author: Chaim PotokEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-11
ISBN: 1400031044
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: Entrancing vision of childhood, art and religion
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is entrancing. Firstly, there is the kind of sensitive and skilfully-written depiction of a child's mind and experience which marks out an author as superbly gifted. Then, there are the specific contexts and complications of that child's world. Asher Lev is a child who has what seems to be an innate artistic gift, and he is also the child of strict Orthodox Jewish parents. His talent and his religion create the setting for the novel, the story of his growing-up, which is in many places an intensely painful story. I don't think I have come across a novel which writes better about visual art: the paintings are described but not over-described; their force becomes clear through the writing. As well as evoking the experience of childhood and the experience of art, it is one of those books which takes the reader inside a cultural setting in a quite haunting way; the various elements of Judaism and of Jewish history and loyalties create the context for the story but are evoked without didacticism. Altogether a haunting book.
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